Description: "This biography of educational activist and Black studies pioneer Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the early years of the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey describes how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist milestones into tangible accomplishments in North Carolina and nationwide from the late 1960s to the 1990s"--
Brief description:
Sonya Y. Ramsey is associate
professor of history and women's and gender studies and the director of the
Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte. She is the author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century
of Black Women Teachers in Nashville.