Description Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation Into a private women\'s College in 1906.
She directs the Tusculum Institute for local history and historic preservation at Sweet Briar College..
This work has been supported by numerous grants and she has written five books (on Mesopotamian houses, African American cemeteries, Sweet Briar College, and Virginia\'s role in World War I).
For over two decades she has studied the lives of exceptional, yet overlooked, Americans.
About the Author Lynn Rainville is the Dean of Sweet Briar College.
In the process, Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a College "founder" is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution -- one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.
Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the College did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened.
This volume tells the story of the Invisible founders of a College founded by and for white women.
Description Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation Into a private women\'s College in 1906
