Tell them we are rising a memoir of faith in education
Ruth Wright Hayre grew up in a close, genteel family that had prized learning since the days of the Civil War. At age ten, her grandfather, Richard Robert Wright, led by his remarkable mother, marched 200 miles to attend a school for emancipated slaves in a discarded railroad boxcar in Atlanta.
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New York
Wiley
1997
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Table of Contents:
- "Tell them we are rising." Root and branch: The family tree
- My educational odyssey
- A Philadelphia story
- The climb to the boardroom
- Not what we give but what we share
- The leap of faith
- Getting to know you
- The mentors
- The pregnancy problem
- Mission accomplished
- The risers
- What I have learned
- A last word