Faithful to the Task at Hand

Faithful to the Task at HandThe story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and education Born just twenty years after the end of slavery and orphaned at the age of five, Lucy Diggs Slowe (18851937) became a seventeen time tennis champion and the first African American woman to win a major sports title, a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the first Dean of Women at Howard University. She provided leadership and service in a wide range

LeCourt analyzes student-written literacy autobiographies to examine how students interact with and challenge cultural theories of identity

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with the growth of a new urban middle class under the July monarchy and the rebuilding of Paris by Haussmann under the Second Empire

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faces and names from the past come back to him—he recalls a neighbor named Swann

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