Hello professor a black principal and professional leadership in the segregated south /

• Main Author: Walker, Vanessa Siddle.
• Other Authors: Byas, Ulysses.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: Byas, Ulysses.; 1900 - 1999; African American school principals > Biography. > Gainesville > Georgia; Public schools > Georgia > Gainesville.; African American students > Social conditions. > Gainesville > Georgia; Segregation in education > Georgia > Gainesville.; Racism in education > Georgia > Gainesville.; Discrimination in education > Georgia > Gainesville.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.; EDUCATION > General. > Administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE > African American Studies. > Ethnic Studies; African American school principals.; African American students > Social conditions.; Discrimination in education.; Public schools.; Race relations.; Racism in education.; Segregation in education.; Social history.; Gainesville (Ga.) > Race relations.; Gainesville (Ga.) > Social conditions.; Gainesville (Ga.) > History > 20th century.; Georgia > Gainesville.; Electronic books.; Biography.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index.
• ISBN: 9780807888766 (electronic bk.); 0807888761 (electronic bk.); 9781469605562 (electronic bk.); 1469605562 (electronic bk.); 9780807888759; 0807888753

Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addressed by community members as 'Professor'. He kept copious notes and records throughout his career, documenting efforts to improve the education of blacks. Through conversations with Byas and access to his extensive archives on his principalship, this book finds that black principals were well positioned in the community to serve as conduits of ideas, knowledge, and tools to support black resistance to officially sanctioned regressive educational systems in the Jim Crow South.