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'''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.
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== Early life and education ==
'''Betty Jamerson Reed''' (born 1937) is a researcher, author and retired educator in the United States. She wrote three books about schools and educators including ''Soldiers in Petticoats —Appalachian Educators— Sophia Sawyer, Emily Prudden, Martha Berry'' about the work of three Christian educators.<ref>https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews//soldiers-in-petticoats/</ref> Her writings have also been included in anthologies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.virginiawritersclub.org/VWC-Blog/12987768|title=Virginia Writers Club - VWC Member/Chapter News - October 2022|website=www.virginiawritersclub.org}}</ref> She also writes poetry.<ref name="poet">{{Cite web|url=https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/wncha-history-hour-the-brevard-rosenwald-school/|title=WNCHA History Hour: The Brevard Rosenwald School}}</ref> She lives in [[Transylvania County, North Carolina]].<ref name=poet/> She has surveyed and written about [[Rosenwald School]] in western North Carolina. She wrote her dissertation and a book about the Brevard Rosenwald School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kru-Tkk3HBAC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA226&dq=betty+jamerson+reed&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity&ovdme=1|title=Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children|first1=Marta|last1=Gutman|first2=Ning De|last2=Coninck-Smith|date=January 8, 2008|publisher=Rutgers University Press|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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|url=https://www.boldlife.com/retired-teacher-explores-the-history-of-school-segregation-in-western-north-carolina/ |title=Retired Teacher Explores the History of School Segregation in Western North Carolina &#124; Bold Life|website=www.boldlife.com}}</ref> She was interviewed in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nonfictionauthorsassociationwww.boldlife.com/authorretired-interviewteacher-bettyexplores-jamersonthe-reed-authorhistory-of-soldiersschool-segregation-in-petticoatswestern-north-carolina/|title=Author Interview: Betty Jamerson Reed, Author of Soldiers in Petticoats|first=Guest|last=Post|date=October 29, 2020|website=Nonfiction Authors Associationwww.boldlife.com}}</ref>▼
 
== Career ==
▲She is a native of western North Carolina.<ref name="poet"/> She graduated from [[Bryan College]] in [[Dayton, Tennessee]]. She taught History, 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]], [[Mars Hill College]], [[Brevard College]], and [[Western Carolina University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boldlife.com/retired-teacher-explores-the-history-of-school-segregation-in-western-north-carolina/|title=Retired Teacher Explores the History of School Segregation in Western North Carolina &#124; Bold Life|website=www.boldlife.com}}</ref> She was interviewed in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/author-interview-betty-jamerson-reed-author-of-soldiers-in-petticoats/|title=Author Interview: Betty Jamerson Reed, Author of Soldiers in Petticoats|first=Guest|last=Post|date=October 29, 2020|website=Nonfiction Authors Association}}</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>
 
SheIn surveyed2011, [[Rosenwaldshe published ''School]]s Segregation in southwesternWestern North Carolina, forA theHistory, State1860s-1970s.''<ref>{{Cite Archivesjournal Department|last=Clare |first=Rodney |date=February 2013 |title=School Segregation in 2002.<refWestern nameNorth Carolina: A History, 1860s-1970s |journal=poet[[Journal of Southern History]] |volume=79 |issue=1 |pages=198}}</ref> In 2012 she was honored by the American Association of State and Local History for her book on school segregation in western Borth Carolina.<ref>http://download.aaslh.org/awards+material/2012+Leadership+in+History+Awards+Winners+By+State.pdf</ref> In 2019, Reed published ''Soldiers in Petticoats''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/author-interview-betty-jamerson-reed-author-of-soldiers-in-petticoats/|title=Author Interview: Betty Jamerson Reed, Author of Soldiers in Petticoats|first=Guest|last=Post|date=October 29, 2020|website=Nonfiction Authors Association}}</ref> To covers the lives and work of educators[[Martha Berry]], [[Sophia Sawyer]], and [[Emily Prudden]].
She also writes poetry,<ref name="poet">{{Cite web|url=https://thelaurelofasheville.com/event/wncha-history-hour-the-brevard-rosenwald-school/|title=WNCHA History Hour: The Brevard Rosenwald School}}</ref> and her work has been included in anthologies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.virginiawritersclub.org/VWC-Blog/12987768|title=Virginia Writers Club - VWC Member/Chapter News - October 2022|website=www.virginiawritersclub.org}}</ref> She lives in [[Transylvania County, North Carolina]].<ref name="poet" />
 
==Selected bibliography==
==Writings==
*''{{Cite book|title=Soldiers in Petticoats'' ISBN: 9781973637424 |date=2019|publisher=WestBow Press (2019)|isbn=9781973637424}}
*''School Segregation in Western North Carolina, A History, 1860s-1970s'' (2011)<ref>{{Cite web|url=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=onepage&q&f=falsebook|title=School Segregation in Western North Carolina: A History, 1860s-1970s|first=Betty Jamerson|last=Reed|date=October 14, 2011|publisher=McFarland|viaisbn=Google Books9780786487080}}</ref>
*''The Brevard Rosenwald School; Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966'' (2004)<ref>{{Citecite journalbook|url isbn=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=00224642&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA132774392&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs9780786417438 | title=The Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966 |first=David L.|last=Davis|date=May5 1,March 2004 2005|journal=Journal of Southern History|volumepublisher=71|issue=2|pages=484–485|via=go.gale.comMcFarland}}</ref><ref>https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Brevard_Rosenwald_School/26OfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en</ref>
 
===Articles===
*"Sequoyah, the Son of a Virginian”, ''The Virginia Writers Journal.'' (July 2022)<ref name=poet/>.
 
==References==
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[[Category:History of education in the United States]]
[[Category:Scholars of American education]]
[[Category:Historians of the Reconstruction Era]]
[[Category:Historians of African Americans]]
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[[Category:1937 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from North Carolina]]
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