TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Gertrude S.
AU  - Robinson,Jo Ann
AU  - Williams,Gertrude S.
TI  - Education As My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools
T2  - Palgrave Studies in Oral History Ser
SN  - 9781403981400
AV  - GN495.6E171-E183.9D2 
U1  - 371.01097526 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - African American school principals -- Biography
KW  - Public schools -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century
KW  - School principals -- United States -- Biography
KW  - United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
KW  - Williams, Gertrude S., -- 1927-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE: Beginnings -- TWO: Teacher Training at Cheyney -- THREE: Teacher at Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- FOUR: Counselor at Mordecai Gist -- FIVE: Becoming Principal at Barclay School -- SIX: Principal at Barclay, Part One: "Barclay is Everybody's Business" -- SEVEN: Principal at Barclay, Part Two: "To Learn as Fast as They Can and as Slow as They Must" -- EIGHT: Principal at Barclay, Part Three: "We Did Not Want a Poor Man's Curriculum" -- NINE: Principal at Barclay, Part Four: In the Spotlight -- TEN: Retirement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools,The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life
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ER  -