Educational reconstruction : African American schools in the urban South, 1865-1890 / Hilary Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Hilary, 1977- author.

Series:

Reconstructing America (Series)

Reconstructing America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education--Southern States--History.

African Americans.

Schools--Southern States--History.

Schools.

Education--Social aspects--Southern States.

Education.

Urbanization--Southern States.

Urbanization.

Education--Social aspects.

History.

African Americans--Education.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

vi, 258 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Envisioning Citizenship and the African American Schoolhouse

1 Remaking the Former Confederate Capital: Black Richmonders and the Transition to Public Schools, 1865-1870 15

2 No Longer Slaves: Black Mobilians and the Hard Struggle for Schools, 1865-1870 36

Part II Creating Essential Partnerships and Resources

3 To "Do That Which Is Best": Richmond Colored Normal and the Development of Public Schoolteachers 67

4 Remaking Old Blue College: Emerson Normal and Addressing the Need for Public Schoolteachers 89

Part III Integrating the African American Schoolhouse

5 Shifting Strategies: Black Richmonders' Quest for Quality Public Schools 107

6 Rethinking Partners: Black Mobilians' Struggle for Quality Public Schools 130

Part IV Perfecting the African American Schoolhouse

7 Walking Slowly but Surely: The Readjusters and the Quality School Campaigns in Richmond 157

8 Still Crawling: Black Mobilians' Struggle for Quality Schools Continues 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823270118

0823270114

9780823270125

0823270122

OCLC:

918594391