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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480929003321

Autore

Green Hilary

Titolo

Educational Reconstruction : African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 / / Hilary Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8232-7016-5

0-8232-7015-7

0-8232-7014-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Reconstructing America

Disciplina

371.829/9607509034

Soggetti

Urbanization - Southern States

Education - Social aspects - Southern States

Schools - Southern States - History

African Americans - Education - Southern States - History

Electronic books.

Southern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Remaking the Former Confederate Capital -- 2. No Longer Slaves -- 3. To “Do That Which Is Best” -- 4. Remaking Old Blue College -- 5. Shifting Strategies -- 6. Rethinking Partners -- 7. Walking Slowly but Surely -- 8. Still Crawling -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.Hilary Green proposes a new chronology in understanding postwar African American education, examining how urban African Americans demanded quality public schools from their new city and state partners. Revealing the significant gains made after



the departure of the Freedmen’s Bureau, this study reevaluates African American higher education in terms of developing a cadre of public school educator-activists and highlights the centrality of urban African American protest in shaping educational decisions and policies in their respective cities and states.