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Book SynopsisBook 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.
Trade Review"... A significant contribution to our understanding of the long Reconstruction era, and to the origins of Booker T. Washington's ascendancy." -- -Mike Fitzgerald
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Envisioning Citizenship and the African American Schoolhouse 1. Remaking the Former Confederate Capital: Black Richmonders and the Transition to Public Schools, 1865-70 2. No Longer Slaves: Black Mobilians and the Hard Struggle for Schools, 1865-70 Part II: Creating Essential Partners and Resources 3. To "Do That Which Is Best": Richmond Colored Normal and the Development of Public Schoolteachers 4. Remaking Old Blue College: Emerson Normal and Addressing the Need for Public Schoolteachers Part III: Integrating the African American Schoolhouse 5. Shifting Strategies: Black Richmonders' Quest for Quality Public Schools 6. Rethinking Partners: Black Mobilians' Struggle for Quality Public Schools Part IV: Perfecting the African American Schoolhouse 7. Walking Slowly But Surely: The Readjusters and the Quality School Campaigns in Richmond 8. Still Crawling: Black Mobilians' Struggle For Quality Schools Continues Epilogue: The Blair Education Bill and the Death of Educational Reconstruction, 1890 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
