312 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 10 halftones
African-American Studies | Education and History of Education | History / United States - Southern History | Social Studies / African-American History
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 demonstrates, his influence reached well beyond his lifetime.
“Capossela is to be congratulated for John U. Monro: Uncommon Educator. Her book will clearly be of interest to historians of black education, the civil rights movement, and the U.S. South.”—Journal of Southern History
“John U. Monro touched many lives, including my own. Toni-Lee Capossela's long-awaited biography does justice to this fascinating man.”—Linda Greenhouse, author of Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
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