Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilian
From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Arch
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a
After the destruction of the Civil War, the United States faced the immense challenge of rebuilding a ravaged South and incorporating millions of freed slaves i