Download or read book A Class of Their Own written by Adam Fairclough and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. A Class of Their Own is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.