This well-written biography of an intriguing black educator is strong on narrative, recovering Baldwin's life from obscurity with sound scholarship.–Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, author of
Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow I learned a great deal from
Maria Baldwin's Worlds about the self-organization of the black community in the North over a crucial but often neglected half century, and found it thoroughly readable as well as informative.–Charles Leslie Glenn Jr., author of
The Myth of the Common School Weiler's biography of Baldwin is an excellent book that fills a significant gap in the literature on black women educators in New England.–
History of Education Quarterly
