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{{Short description|American historian}}
 
'''Betty Jamerson Reed''' (born 1937) is a researcher, author and retired educator in the United States. She hahas written about school segregation in North Carolina and educators whonchallengedwho challenged discrimination.
 
== Early life and education ==
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 (in 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>
 
== Career ==
She surveyed the history of the Brevard Rosenwald School, and other Rosenwald sponsored buildings, in southwestern North Carolina for the State Archives Department in 2002. Reed authored her dissertation, "The Brevard Rosenwald School" in 1999. In 2004 it was published as a book by McFarland Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina and generally received praise from reviewers.
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>
Examples include
Certificate of Commendation—American Association for State and Local History
“a thorough and impressive study”—Appalachian Heritage
“complemented by photographs…well indexed”—The Journal of Southern History
“valuable”—Journal of Appalachian Studies
“outstanding…meticulously documented, engagingly written, and insightful”— The Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920 - 1966
 
In 2011, McFarland published her School Segregation in Western North Carolina, A History, 1860s-1970s.'[[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.<In 2019, Reed published Soldiers in Petticoats.<which relates events in the lives and work of educators: Martha Berry, Sophia Sawyer, and Emily Prudden.
 
In 2011, she published ''School Segregation in Western North Carolina, A History, 1860s-1970s.''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clare |first=Rodney |date=February 2013 |title=School Segregation in Western North Carolina: A History, 1860s-1970s |journal=[[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.<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" />
 
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