A Seprate Sisterhood examines the personal lives and profesional accomplisherments of a group of wise and persistent women whose collective work in the early twentieth century crucially educational reform in the New South. Working at the intersection of race, gender, and class, these women fought for educational improvement in a region of exceptional poverty, rural isolation, and racial prejudice. Their work, explored collectively for the first time in this groundbeaking text, demonstrates the roots of early advances in southern literacly education, vocational education, community outreach education, adult education, equal educational opportunity, curricular integrity, public suport, and teacher pay equity.