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Another organization that heavily affected freedmen's education was the Freedmen's Bureau.The Freedmen's Bureau was created by congress to aid African Americans in the South; which was a temporary form of government aid that was intended for the general welfare of the recently freed individuals and families - lasting only 6 years.
Fen, Sing-nan. (1967). "Notes on the Education of Negroes in North Carolina During the Civil War" The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 36, No. 1. pp. 24–31. Parker, Marjorie H. "The Educational Activities of the Freedmen's Bureau" (PhD dissertation, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1951. T-01438).
The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for the related policies and debates. Black schools, also referred to as "Negro schools" and " colored schools ", were racially segregated schools in the United States that originated in the ...
The Oneida Institute of Science and Industry (founded 1827) was the first institution of higher education to routinely admit African-American men and provide mixed-race college-level education. [130] Oberlin College (founded 1833) was the first mainly white, degree-granting college to admit African-American students. [ 131 ]
Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South.They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States.
Journal of Negro Education (1944): 568-574. online; Jones, Jacqueline. "Women who were more than men: Sex and status in freedmen's teaching." History of Education Quarterly 19#1 (1979): 47-59. in JSTOR; McPherson, James M. The struggle for equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Princeton University Press ...
Between 1864 and 1874, white mobs razed more than 600 Black schools, according to Campbell F. Scribner, author of the book “A is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education.”
Leadership and control of the Freedmen's Aid Society has been attributed to both the Congregational and the Methodist Episcopal churches. [2] [4] The Methodist version of the Society's history states that it was founded in 1866. It was "directed by a Board of Managers who were elected by the (Methodist) General Conference."