Betty Jamerson Reed: Difference between revisions

'''Betty Jamerson Reed''' (born 1937) is a researcher, author and retired educator in the United States. She has written about school segregation in North Carolina and educators who challenged discrimination.

She is a native of westernWestern North Carolina.<ref name="poet" /> She graduated from [[Bryan College]] in [[Dayton, Tennessee]]. She taught Historyhistory, English, and Spanish at East Henderson High School, Brevard High School, and Rosman High School and has also been an instructor at [[Blue Ridge Community College (North Carolina)|Blue Ridge Community College]], [[Mars Hill College]], [[Brevard College]], and [[Western Carolina University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Retired Teacher Explores the History of School Segregation in Western North Carolina &#124; Bold Life |url=https://www.boldlife.com/retired-teacher-explores-the-history-of-school-segregation-in-western-north-carolina/ |website=www.boldlife.com}}</ref>

She surveyed [[Rosenwald School]]s in southwestern North Carolina for the State Archives Department in 2002.<ref name="poet" /> Reed authored ''The Brevard Rosenwald School; Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966'' in 2004. The book generally received praise from reviewers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Burnside |first=Jacqueline |date=2006 |title=Review of The Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920 - 1966 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41446712 |journal=Journal of Appalachian Studies |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=149–151 |jstor=41446712 |issn=1082-7161}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Davis |first=David L. |date=May 1, 2005 |title=The Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=00224642&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA132774392&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs |journal=Journal of Southern History |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=484–485 |doi=10.2307/27648790 |jstor=27648790 |via=go.gale.com}}</ref> The [[Rosenwald School|Brevard Rosenwald School]] had also been the subject of her dissertation.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gutman |first1=Marta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kru-Tkk3HBAC&dq=betty+jamerson+reed&pg=PA226 |title=Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children |last2=Coninck-Smith |first2=Ning De |date=January 8, 2008 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=9780813541952 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

*''{{Cite book|title=Soldiers in Petticoats'' ISBN: 9781973637424 |date=2019|publisher=WestBow Press (2019)|isbn=9781973637424}}

*''{{Cite book|title=School Segregation in Western North Carolina,: A History, 1860s-1970s''|date=October 14, (2011)<ref>https://books.google.com/books/about/School_Segregation_in_Western_North_Caro.html?id=l2oFNmUlEn8C&printsec=frontcover&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_entity&hl=en&gl=US&ovdme=1#v|publisher=onepage&q&fMcFarland|isbn=false</ref>9780786487080}}

*''{{cite book| isbn=9780786417438 | title=The Brevard Rosenwald School;: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966'' (2004)<ref>https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA132774392&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess| date=abs&issn=00224642&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E7c3b053c</ref><ref>https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Brevard_Rosenwald_School/26OfAAAAMAAJ?hl5 March 2004 | publisher=en</ref>McFarland}}

*"Sequoyah, the Son of a Virginian”, ''The Virginia Writers Journal.'' (July 2022)<ref name=rose/>.