James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a

Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

A critical reinterpretation from reconstruction to the Great Depression. Places black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context; considers bl

Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and aboliti