TY  - GEN
T1  - The quiet trailblazer : my journey as the first Black graduate of the University of Georgia
A1  - Early, Mary Frances
A2  - Tufts, Melissa
LA  - English
PP  - Athens, Georgia
PB  - Published by the Mary Frances Early College of Education and the University of Georgia Libraries
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1269073635
AB  - The Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early's life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South. Early carefully maps the road to her 1961 decision to apply to the master's program in music education at the University of Georgia, becoming one of only three African American students. With this personal journey we are privy to her prolonged and difficult admission process; her experiences both troubling and hopeful while on the Athens campus; and her historic graduation in 1962. Early shares fascinating new details of her regular conversations with civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. She also recounts her forty-eight years as a music educator in the state of Georgia, the Southeast, and at the national level. She continued to blaze trails within the field and across professional associations. After Early earned her master's and specialist's degrees, she became an acclaimed Atlanta music educator, teaching music at segregated schools and later being promoted to music director of the entire school system. In 1981 Early became the first African American elected president of the Georgia Music Educators Association. After she retired from working in public schools in 1994, Early taught at Morehouse College and Spelman College and served as chair of the music department at Clark Atlanta University. Early details her welcome reconciliation with UGA, which had failed for decades to publicly recognize its first Black graduate. In 2018 she received the President's Medal, and her portrait is one of only two women's to hang in the Administration Building. Most recently, Early was honored by the renaming of the College of Education in her honor.
CN  - LD1986
SN  - 9780820360829
SN  - 0820360821
SN  - 9780820360812
KW  - Early, Mary Frances.
KW  - University of Georgia : Students : Biography.
KW  - University of Georgia
KW  - Women college students : Georgia : Athens : Biography.
KW  - African American women college students : Georgia : Athens : Biography.
KW  - Music students : United States : Biography.
KW  - African American women : United States : Biography.
KW  - African American music teachers : United States : Biography.
KW  - United States : Race relations : History : 20th century.
KW  - College integration : Georgia : Athens : History.
KW  - Étudiantes : Géorgie (État) : Athens : Biographies.
KW  - Étudiantes noires américaines : Géorgie (État) : Athens : Biographies.
KW  - Étudiants en musique : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Noires américaines : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Professeurs de musique noirs américains : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations raciales : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Déségrégation dans les universités : Géorgie (État) : Athens : Histoire.
KW  - African American music teachers
KW  - African American women
KW  - African American women college students
KW  - College integration
KW  - Music students
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Students
KW  - Women college students
KW  - Georgia : Athens
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Biography
KW  - autobiographies (literary works)
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Autobiographies.
KW  - Biographies.
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