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Educational Reconstruction Reconstructing America Andrew L. Slap, series editor Educational Reconstruction African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 Hilary Green Fordham University Press New York 2016 Copyright © 2016 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Visit us online at www.fordhampress.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available online at catalog.loc.gov. Printed in the United States of America 18 17 16 5 4 3 2 1 First edition Contents List of Abbreviations vii Introduction | 1 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 Th at 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 Shift ing Strategies: Black Richmonders’ Quest for Quality Public Schools | 107 vi Contents 6 Rethinking Partners: Black Mobilians’ Struggle for Quality Public Schools | 130 Part IV Perfecting the African American Schoolhouse 7 Walking Slowly but Surely: Th e Readjusters and the Quality School Campaigns in Richmond | 157 8 Still Crawling: Black Mobilians’ Struggle for Quality Schools Continues | 174 Epilogue: Th e Blair Education Bill and the Death of Educational Reconstruction, 1890 | 185 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 203 Bibliography 239 Index 255 Abbreviations ADAH Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama AFUC American Freedmen’s Union Commission, New York AL-BRFAL-ED United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, National Archives Microfi lm Publication, Washington, D.C. AMA American Missionary Association Archives, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans ARC Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans BRFAL-ED Records of the Educational Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, National Archives Microfi lm Publication, Washington, DC LVA Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia MCPSS Mobile County Public School System, Barton Academy, Mobile, Alabama MHS Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston NEFAS New England Freedmen’s Aid Society, Boston VA-BRFAL-ED United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, National Archives Microfi lm Publication, Washington, D.C. VHS Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia VSU Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia This page intentionally left blank Educational Reconstruction This page intentionally left blank
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