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

by Hilary Green and Hilary N. Green

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823270114
• ISBN13: 9780823270118
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"