Fifteen Red Roses: The Challenge of Public School Race Relations in Rural Georgia

by Ann W. Yearwood

Overview

In the fall of 1962, Eve Windham begins her high school teaching career with enthusiasmIll be the best teacher they ever had!

By the spring of 1969, the power of the civil rights movement reaches Janus County, resulting in a court order to integrate the public schools the next fall. Eve must face the challenge of possible violence with courage.

Persevere with her to create new grading systems and group activities for her mixed classes. Ride with her to transport contestants and judge debate competitions. Sit with her in long, continuous meetings for the boys and girls. Laugh and cry with her in the interactions with family, colleagues, and administrators. Pray with her as she seeks to interpret for her teenagers war and death in Vietnam, bitter disappointment, baffling college standards and demonstrations, and a shifting culture. Then you may rightly judge the significance of Fifteen Red Roses, one for each year she taught us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781973623908
Publisher:	WestBow Press
Publication date:	06/14/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	638
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Author and retired educator Ann W. Yearwood is well known in her Georgia county, where she has lived with her husband most of her adult life. She writes about home, school, church, and community. Her research on interracial dynamics was published in The Gerontologist (1983); her first book, Redbird Farm, debuted in 2008. Two of Anns four children still live in the county and have families of their own. Wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, and friend, Ann likes to think of herself as an encourager.