Martha Berry and the Berry Schools

Mount Berry: Berry Schools, 1963.

Mount Berry: Berry College, 1967.

Atlanta: Wings Publishers, 2001.

Mount Berry: Berry Schools, 1963.

Mount Berry: Berry College, 1966.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.
The most detailed and comprehensive history to date of Berry College. Ranging from Berry's modest beginnings in 1902 as a trade school for rural Appalachian youth to its present-day standing among the Southeast's best liberal arts colleges, the book tells how Martha Berry's founding vision-to educate the head, the heart, and the hands-evolved to meet the challenges of each new generation. The photographs, many of them rarely seen before, capture happenings at Berry over its first century: preparations for the world wars, visits by renowned benefactors, student protests, expansions of campus facilities, and diverse aspects of daily life in and out of the classroom. Ouida Dickey and Doyle Mathis separate myth from fact as they address Berry's traditions, controversies, and triumphs and relate important developments at Berry to wider events in Georgia and Appalachia. As Berry graduates and career-long members of its faculty and staff, Dickey and Mathis themselves are part of the Berry tradition. Their meticulous research draws on a rich trove of documents to reveal a story that surpasses many of the familiar and beloved tales connected to the school. Berry's enviable standing-as a model for work-study colleges nationwide, as a place intimately tied to the cultural life of its region, as a choice recipient of philanthropy-makes this new book important to historians, scholars of higher education, and thousands of Berry students, faculty, and alumni.

In The Coosa River Valley, From De Soto to Hydroelectric Power, p.233-238. Cynthiana, KY: Hobson Book Press, 1944.

NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946.
p.197-198: "It became a Tuskegee for whites , and Martha Berry became a Booker T. Washington for mountaineers ... she appealed constructively to the imagination of the up-country when the Ku Klux Klan was riding high, and she utilized the nativistic urge for humanitarian purposes."

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1956.
A biography of Martha Berry and the story of how she built the Berry Schools.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Women's campaign for educational improvements in postbellum Georgia and its broader effect on southern social relations After the upheavals of Reconstruction, power in the South returned largely unchanged to white men and the state - but for many southern women, change became imperative. Alarmed at the growing poverty, illiteracy, class strife, and vulnerability of women, female activists in Georgia advocated a fair and just system of education as a way of providing economic opportunity for women and the rural and urban poor. Their focus on educational reform transfigured public and private social relations in the New South, as Rebecca S. Montgomery details in her expansive new study. Montgomery argues that women's prolonged campaign for educational improvements reflected their concern for distributing public resources more equitably.

NY: Peter Lang, 2002
Examines the personal lives and professional accomplishments of a group of wise and persistent women whose collective work in the early twentieth century crucially influenced 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 groundbreaking text, demonstrates the roots of early advances in southern literacy education, vocational education, community outreach education, adult education, equal educational opportunity, curricular integrity, public support, and teacher pay equity.

Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, 2019.
Sophia Sawyer, Emily Prudden, and Martha Berry encountered sexism, prejudice, financial hardship, discrimination, challenging travel conditions, exclusion from the right to vote, and social complacency. On one occasion two militiamen showed up at the school door and threatened to arrest the teacher if she continued teaching black children to read. Another dealt with murder and mayhem, violence, loss of life, and racial hostility. And a third was shunned by her neighbors because she associated with poor mountaineers and "begged" to keep her school open. Their victories against overwhelming obstacles on behalf of struggling youth in the Southern Appalachian region, as well as in Oklahoma and Arkansas, led each into a deeper Christian life. With vision, audacity, and resolution these teachers enabled students to succeed. Their accomplishments as educators and as Christians provide inspiration for today's readers. Sawyer, Prudden, and Berry were viewed in their culture as weak. However, they battled ignorance, bias, superstition, and even dirt, as they effectively changed the lives of thousands of children and adults.

In Women and Philanthropy in Education. Indiana University Press, 2005.

In Grappling with Diversity: readings on civil rights pedagogy and critical multiculturalism. SUNY Press, 2008.
Written for classroom and pre-service teachers who wish to adopt a civil rights pedagogy, Grappling with Diversity illuminates the diverse worldviews of people in our nation s history who are usually omitted, marginalized, or misrepresented in the American school curriculum. In order to prepare young people to interact in a variety of contexts with people who are different from themselves, the contributors take a serious look at teaching them to examine the origins and assumptions underlying mainstream thinking, which divides the nation into North and South, us and them, rich and poor, black and white, and to analyze alternative educational frameworks for understanding people and the planet. They also explore the concept of privilege by asking which stories are privileged in contemporary culture, what readings are available, and whose interests are served by them.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1965.

NY: Harper, 1940.

In Georgia women: their lives and times. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Exploring the diverse and changing patterns of Georgia women's lives, this first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in this volume include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important role in Georgia's history.

Washington, DC: National Education Association, 1944.

NY: Association Press, 1937.

Julian Messner, 1967.

NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1972.
A biography of the young woman whose desire to help Appalachian children resulted in the creation of boarding schools and a college in rural Georgia where youngsters could work as well as study.

Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1986.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968.