Unnamed Negro Teachers
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3550
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Unnamed Negro Teachers
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Unnamed Negro Teachers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
After returning from Spain in The Mansion, Linda Snopes Kohl begins going into "the Negro grammar and high school" to try to improve conditions for "the pupils" (246). The black teachers in the school (along with their students) are described as "startled" and "perhaps alarmed" by her presence (246). Linda's plan would "send" these same black teachers "North to white schools where they will be accepted and trained as white teachers are" - meanwhile replacing them in the school in Jefferson with white teachers (250).