Joe M. Richardson is emeritus professor of History
at Florida State University, USA, and author of African Americans
in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877 and A History of Fisk
University.
Maxine D. Jones is professor of History at Florida
State University, USA, and is co-author of Talladega College.
"[Richardson and Jones'] collaborative effort here yields a rich
and fascinating portrait of the people who made the American
Missionary Association into one of the most long-lived and radical
opponents of racism in the modernizing South."
--Journal of Southern History
"[The authors] provide a thoroughly researched, nuanced, and
dispassionate account of African Americans' long struggle for
educational opportunity in the post-Reconstruction South."
--American Historical Review
"Based on extensive research in the archives at the Amistad
Research Center at Tulane, which houses the AMA [American
Missionary Association] papers, and primarily factual and
informative rather than interpretive, this work will be of great
value as a reference for all scholars concerned with black
education in the South through the first half of the twentieth
century. Particularly noteworthy is the coverage of the tenure of
Frederick Brownlee, head of the AMA from 1920 to 1950, who brought
the organization out of an era of paternalism into strong support
for civil equality."
--CHOICE
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