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Betty Jamerson Reed

To contact me about speaking to a group (about women in history, the role of educators in the past, segregated schools, or any subject related to education within the realm of my expertise,) please email me at betty_j_reed@yahoo.com.

Soldiers in Petticoats: "A well-researched study on the lives and legacies of women who sought to empower others." Kirkus Review

School Segregation in Western North Carolina: a detailed, thoroughly researched and well documented history…well written and interesting to read.” AASLH Narrative

The Brevard Rosenwald School : “outstanding…meticulously documented, engagingly written, and insightful”—American Association for State and Local History

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Brevard Rosenwald School: “outstanding…meticulously documented, engagingly written, and insightful”

American Association for State and Local History

School Segregation in Western North Carolina: “a detailed, thoroughly researched and well-documented history…well written and interesting to read”

AASLH Narrative

School Segregation in Western North Carolina: “a needed contribution to an underrepresented area of study in Appalachian and African American history”

The Journal of Southern History

School Segregation in Western North Carolina: “in these 264 pages are found failures and successes, laughter and tears, statistics and inspiration. All blend together to both explain and preserve a century and more of educational yearning, neglect, striving, and, to some extent, success”

The Transylvania Times

Soldiers in Petticoats: The author unpacks the social and political foundations of the area’s pervasive poverty as she specifically highlights three women whose actions helped its future generations. A well-researched study on the lives and legacies of women who sought to empower others.

Appalachian Educators Kirkus Review

Soldiers in Petticoats is a book to read and discuss! Soldiers in Petticoats is an invaluable resource for anyone who is interested in the history of education, women’s history, mountain missions, or simply an inspiring story.

Soldiers in Petticoats

Soldiers in Petticoats

Betty Jamerson Reed unfolds the pioneer experiences of influential educational leaders.

school segregation in western north carolina

School Segregation in Western North Carolina

This book documents early efforts to educate black children, improve schools and the process of desegregation.

The Brevard Rosenwald School

The Brevard Rosenwald School

This book is a history of the school and its attempts to improve the education of African Americans in the South.