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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In 1967, John U. Monro, dean of the college at Harvard, left his twenty-year administrative career at that prestigious university for a teaching position at Miles College-an unaccredited historically black college on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. This unconventional move was a natural continuation of Monro's life-long commitment to equal opportunity in education. A champion of the underprivileged, Monro embodied both the virtues of the Greatest Generation and the idealism of the civil rights era. His teaching career spanned more than four decades, and, as biographer Toni-Lee Capossela. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Monro, John U. (John Usher), 1912-2002.
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Monro, John U. (John Usher), 1912-2002. |
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Miles College -- Faculty -- Biography.
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Miles College. |
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Biographies.
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Monro, John U., 1912-2002 Monro, John Usher. |
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Miles College -- Biography -- Faculty. |
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Monro, John U. (John Usher), 1912-2002. |
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Educators -- United States -- Biography.
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Educators. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780807145562 0807145564 (DLC) 2012006531 |
| ISBN |
0807145572 (electronic book) |
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9780807145579 (electronic book) |
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9780807145562 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0807145564 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780807145586 (epub) |
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9780807145593 (mobi) |
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