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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787479703321

Autore

Vaughn William Preston

Titolo

Schools for all : the Blacks & public education in the South, 1865-1877 / / William Preston Vaughn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1974

©1974

ISBN

0-8131-6491-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

370/.975

Soggetti

African Americans - Education - Southern States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Egiziano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 161-173.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The Entering Wedge; 2. Southern White Reaction; 3. Southern Public Schools & Integration; 4. Desegregation of Schools in Louisiana; 5. Integration in Public Higher Education; 6. Congress & Integration; 7. The Peabody Fund & Integration; Bibliographical Essay; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Schools for All provides the first in-depth study of black education in Southern public schools and universities during the twelve-year Reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. In the antebellum South, the teaching of African Americans was sporadic and usually in contravention to state laws. During the war, Northern religious and philanthropic organizations initiated efforts to educate slaves. The army, and later the Freedmen's Bureau, became actively involved in freed-men's education. By 1870, however, a shortage of funds for the work forced the bureau to cease its work, at which