Battling Goliath

ISBN-13: 9783639001143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 284 str.

Barbara Morrow Williams

Opis

The complex story of a dynamic educator, Dr. CharlieMae Knight, a woman and an African American, isinterwoven with the Civil Rights Movement, womenshistory, and the foundations of educating children ofcolor and children of poverty in the United States.Dr Knights own impoverished childhood forged herdetermination to use education to escape the povertyand racism of the Deep South of the U.S. at mid-20thCentury. She quickly learned that while she obtainedan education, it was still limited in too manycommunities by the politics of poverty andracism--even in the West. Using her extraordinarypersonal charisma she tapped into theemerging financial capital of Silicon Valley of the1960s to develop the social capital of the familiesin her community of East Palo Alto. In a highlypoliticized climate charged with greed, hostility andenvy, Knight pursued the American dream for hercommunity, often at the cost of social isolation,personal tragedy, and attempts to publicly discredither in the mainstream media.

O autorze

Barbara Morrow Williams grew up in Stockton, CA focused on two
important ideas: Social Capital and Black Feminist Thought. The
Mills College graduate received a MA from UC Berkeley, a Law
degree from Lewis & Clark College and her PhD from the University
of Missouri Columbia in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis.
She lives in California.