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Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
ISBN: 9780823270149
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sociology ; History ; Education;

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.

Hilary N. Green is James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies, Africana Studies Department, Davidson College. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (Fordham) and numerous essays and articles. In addition, she is working on two book projects--a manuscript examining how everyday African Americans remembered and commemorated the Civil War and another exploring campus slavery, race, and memory at the University of Alabama.