| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Reconstructing America
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Reconstructing America.
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| Note |
This edition previously issued in print: 2016. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Hilary Green 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. |
| Audience |
Specialized. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Envisioning citizenship and the African American schoolhouse -- Remaking the former Confederate capital: Black richmonders and the transition to public schools, 1865-1870 -- No longer slaves: Black Mobilians and the hard struggle for schools, 1865-1870 -- Part II: Creating essential partnerships and resources -- To "Do that which is best": Richmond colored normal and the development of public schoolteachers -- Remaking old Blue college: Emerson normal and addressing the need for public schoolteachers -- Part III: Integrating the African American schoolhouse -- Shifting strategies: Black richmonders' quest for quality public schools -- Rethinking partners: Black Mobilians' struggle for quality public schools -- Part IV: Perfecting the African American schoolhouse -- Walking slowly but surely: The readjusters and the quality school campaigns in Richmond -- Still crawling: Black Mobilians' struggle for quality schools continues -- Epilogue: The Blair Education Bill and the Death of Educational reconstruction, 1890. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History.
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Schools -- Southern States -- History.
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Education -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
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Urbanization -- Southern States.
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. |
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African Americans -- Education. |
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Education -- Social aspects. |
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Race relations. |
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Schools. |
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Urbanization. |
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Southern States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Green, Hilary, 1977- Educational reconstruction. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2016 9780823270118 0823270114 (DLC) 2015031057 (OCoLC)918594391 |
| ISBN |
9780823270156 (ebook) |
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0823270157 |
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9780823270163 |
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0823270165 |
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9780823270149 |
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0823270149 |
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9780823270118 |
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0823270114 |
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9780823270125 |
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0823270122 |
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