Description: Invisible Founders : How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College, Hardcover by Rainville, Lynn, ISBN 1789202310, ISBN-13 9781789202311, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women's college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a collegefounded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college 'founder' is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution--one that serves as a microcosm of the American South"--
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Book Title: Invisible Founders : How Two Centuries of African American Famili
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Invisible Founders : How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject: United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Higher, Organizations & Institutions, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Author: Lynn Rainville
Subject Area: Social Science, Education, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
