| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
"The University of Colorado erroneously recognized Dr. Ruth Cave Flowers as its first Black graduate. In 1918--six years before Flowers's graduation--Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones received her bachelor's degree. McLean introduces this woman who lived through an extraordinary time and rectifies the omission from institutional history"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : her voice can be heard -- Inquiry and epiphany -- Born in slavery : the master, the mistress, and their chattel -- The Berkeleys : a slave named Harriet Bishop, and her daughter, Sarah -- Slavery's chain done broke at last -- Colorado and the promise of freedom -- From Denver's bottoms to P.T. Barnum's town -- Education, politics and leisure -- The frontier in our souls -- School, community, and love lost -- A fly in the buttermilk : Colorado and the world of higher education -- "Goin' to Kansas City" : education and baseball -- It's Mister Jones, if you please -- Chicago, take two -- "Lincoln was a Republican, that's all I need to know!" -- Coming home and going home -- Epilogue : the end of the living line. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jones, Lucile Berkeley Buchanan, 1884-1989.
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University of Colorado Boulder -- Students -- Biography.
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Jones, Lucile Berkeley Buchanan, 1884-1989. |
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University of Colorado Boulder |
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Children of freed persons -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators. |
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EDUCATION -- Higher. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women. |
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Children of freed persons |
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Students |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McLean, Polly E. Bugros (Polly Elise Bugros). Remembering Lucile. Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018] 9781607328247 (DLC) 2018033990 (OCoLC)1020632318 |
| ISBN |
9781607328254 (electronic bk.) |
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1607328259 (electronic bk.) |
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9781607328247 |
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1607328240 |
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