Educational Reconstruction by Hilary N Green

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Book explores the post-Civil War creation of African American public schools in Richmond, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama. Urban African Americans and their partners redefined American citizenship, created essential educational resources, and ensured that children had access to a quality education taught by African American teachers at the turn-of-the-twentieth century.

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Educational Reconstruction by Hilary N Green

Book explores the post-Civil War creation of African American public schools in Richmond, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama. Urban African Americans and their partners redefined American citizenship, created essential educational resources, and ensured that children had access to a quality education taught by African American teachers at the turn-of-the-twentieth century.
".. A significant contribution to our understanding of the long Reconstruction era, and to the origins of Booker T. Washington's ascendancy." -- -Mike Fitzgerald

Hilary N. Green is the James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. A distinguished scholar, her research explores the intersections of race, memory, and education in the post–Civil War American South. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890, co-author of the NPS-OAH Historic Resource Study of African American Schools in the South, 1865–1900, and co-editor of The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 (Fordham).

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ISBN 13 9780823270118
ISBN 10 0823270114
Title Educational Reconstruction
Author Hilary N Green
Series Reconstructing America
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Fordham University Press
Year published 2016-04-01
Number of pages 272
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