John U

John U: Uncommon Educator

by Capossela, Toni-Lee

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In 1967, John U. Monro, dean of the college at Harvard, left his twenty-year administrative career at that prestigious university for a teaching position at Miles College-an unaccredited historically black college on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. This unconventional move was a natural continuation of Monro's life-long commitment to equal opportunity in education. A champion of the underprivileged, Monro embodied both the virtues of the Greatest Generation and the idealism of the civil r…

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  • Full title :John U : Uncommon Educator

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In 1967, John U. Monro, dean of the college at Harvard, left his twenty-year administrative career at that prestigious university for a teaching position at Miles College-an unaccredited historically black college on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. This unconventional move was a natural continuation of Monro's life-long commitment to equal opportunity in education. A champion of the underprivileged, Monro embodied both the virtues of the Greatest Generation and the idealism of the civil rights era. His teaching career spanned more than four decades, and, as biographer Toni-Lee Capossela ...

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):LSU Press
  • Place of Publication:Baton Rouge
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2012

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (303 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780807145562, 0807145564, 9780807145579, 0807145572
  • oclc:ocn862323464
  • LC Classification:LA2317.M55 C37 2012
  • Dewey Decimal:370.92

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Capossela, Toni-Lee

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