Schooling the Freed People
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Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and aboliti
Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and aboliti
Breaks the silence regarding modes of classroom control, bringing contemporary political, moral, and democratic perspectives to bear on the issues.
This work is a revisionist interpretation of the work of the secular and religious aid societies and the Freedmen's Bureau in educating free blacks.
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a
Using case studies as illustrations, this text explores the ways in which public schooling was shaped by state constitutions, by state statutes and administrati