A forgotten sisterhood: pioneering black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South

The world they inherited

"Moving like a whirlwind" : Lucy Craft Laney, activist educator

"The best secondary school in Georgia" : building the Haines Institute culture

"Ringing up a school" : Mary McLeod Bethune's impact on Daytona Beach

"Show some daylight between you" : Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the schooling experience of Memorial Palmer Institute graduates, 1948-1958

"Telling some mighty truths" : Nannie Helen Burroughs, activist educator and social critic

"The masses and the classes" : women's friendships and support networks among school founders

Passing into history : commemorations, memorials, and the legacies of Black women school founders

Milestones and legacies.