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  2. Garrison Frazier - Wikipedia

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    Garrison Frazier [1] (1798? - 1873) was an African-American Baptist minister and public figure during the U.S. Civil War.He acted as spokesman for twenty African-American Baptist and Methodist ministers who met on January 12, 1865 with Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, of the Union Army's Military Division of the Mississippi, and with U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, at General ...

  3. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877

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    Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 is a historical non-fiction monograph written by American historian Eric Foner. Its broad focus is the Reconstruction Era in the aftermath of the American Civil War , which consists of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes brought about as consequences of the war's ...

  4. List of publications of William Garrison and Isaac Knapp

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    Third annual report of the board of managers of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society : presented Jan. 21, 1835. Boston: Printed by Garrison and Knapp. Garrison, William (1835). Juvenile poems : for the use of free American children, of every complexion [on the topic of slavery]. Boston: Printed by Garrison and Knapp. May, Samuel J. (1835).

  5. Garrison School Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The district developed between about 1900 and 1942, and contains a variety of National Folk housing types, as well as the brick Garrison School and the limestone African Methodist Church. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1] Garrison School had various principals. A gymnasoum was added in 1938.

  6. Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia

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    General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...

  7. African-American teachers - Wikipedia

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    Education was a way to obtain equality and become established when considering class. [6] Early efforts highlight the importance of eliminating inequality and education being a tool to succeed that. The African-American struggle for education was rooted in the desire to bring about social and political equality and to defeat racial prejudice. [7]

  8. Constructionism (learning theory) - Wikipedia

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    The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge.

  9. Freedom Schools - Wikipedia

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    In Michigan the Black Radical Congress in Detroit launched a campaign to create a model based on the Freedom Schools. Philadelphia Freedom Schools is an independent community education initiative operating a modern version of the Mississippi curriculum with an emphasis on academic scholarship, social action and intergenerational leadership.