The Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early\'s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South.
Most recently, Early was honored by the renaming of the College of Education in her honor.
In 2018 she received the President\'s Medal, and her portrait is one of only two women\'s to hang in the Administration Building.
Early details her welcome reconciliation with UGA, which had failed for decades to publicly recognize its First Black graduate.
After she retired from working in public schools in 1994, Early taught at Morehouse College and Spelman College and served as chair of the music department at Clark Atlanta University.
In 1981 Early became the First African American elected president of the Georgia Music Educators Association.
After Early earned her master\'s and specialist\'s degrees, she became an acclaimed Atlanta music educator, teaching music at segregated schools and later being promoted to music director of the entire school system.
She continued to blaze trails within the field and across professional associations.
She also recounts her forty-eight years as a music educator in the state of Georgia, the Southeast, and at the national level. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Early shares fascinating new details of her regular conversations with civil rights icon Dr.
With this personal Journey we are privy to her prolonged and difficult admission process; her experiences both troubling and hopeful while on the Athens campus; and her historic graduation in 1962.
Early carefully maps the road to her 1961 decision to apply to the master\'s program in music education at the University of Georgia, becoming one of only three African American students.
The Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early\'s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South
