Sonya Y. Ramsey is associate professor of history and women's and gender studies and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville.
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This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey modernizes the nineteenth-century term 'race woman' to describe how... SEE MORE