The world they inherited -- "Moving like a whirlwind" : Lucy Craft Laney, activist educator -- "The best secondary school in Georgia" : building the Haines Institute culture -- "Ringing up a school" : Mary McLeod Bethune's impact on Daytona Beach -- "Show some daylight between you" : Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the schooling experience of Memorial Palmer Institute graduates, 1948-1958 -- "Telling some mighty truths" : Nannie Helen Burroughs, activist educator and social critic -- "The masses and the classes" : women's friendships and support networks among school founders -- Passing into history : commemorations, memorials, and the legacies of Black women school founders -- Milestones and legacies.
