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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Freedmen's Bureau"”.
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Education for All: The Freedmen's Bureau Schools in Richmond and Petersburg, 1865 - 1870
This study examines the development of Freedmen's Bureau schools in Central Virginia at the end of the Civil War. Under the watchful eye of Ralza Manly, Superintendent of the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau education division, establishing schools for freed slaves faced innumerable challenges ranging …
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Organizing Freedom: Collaboration Between the Freedmen's Bureau and Church-Supported Charitable Organizations in the Early Years of Reconstruction
This case study examines why the Freedmen's Bureau, a Federal agency that existed within the War Department between 1865 and 1872, formed collaborative relationships with church-supported charitable organizations to establish schools during the Civil War Reconstruction Period in Virginia. This …
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Schooling for blacks in Henrico County, Virginia 1870-1933: with an emphasis on the contributions of Miss Virginia Estelle Randolph
… strove to aid blacks; and the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 brought an overall renewal of education for blacks. The Freedmen's Bureau aided in the construction of school buildings, and the philanthropic agencies supported teachers for the established schoolhouses. The Freedmen's …
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From Servitude to Freedom: Gender, Labor, and Domestic Relations
… defined the sugar parishes. This thesis utilizes Freedmen's Bureau records, American Missionary Association correspondence, census data, and local newspapers to argue that freedwomen sought to gain control over their labor, bodies, relationships, and children in the postbellum era as they were …
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The Role of Violence in Hunt County, Texas, during Reconstruction
… interim government officials, the arrival of Freedmen's Bureau agents, and in some parts the stationing of federal troops, conservative whites throughout the state became defiant toward the federal government and its policies. Some white southerners even went so far as to take up arms and …
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Claybrook v. Owensboro: Equality, Integration, and Struggle
… the Owensboro school system. Records from the Freedmen's Bureau also provided evidence of racial attitudes and conditions in Kentucky. A Filson Club collection of letters from John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the United States Supreme Court and lone dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson to Judge John …
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From a Northern Home to a Southern School: Cultural Imperialists or Just Stubborn Yankees
… Furthermore, the northern relief agencies, Freedmen's Bureau agents, southern white citizens, and southern freedmen all had their own opinions for the education of the students. Although much time has elapsed between the 1860s and 2013, the same topics and contextual forces are again …
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Educating for freedom: Northern whites and the origins of Black education in the South, 1862-1875
… northerners to raise millions of dollars for freedmen’s schools. It also seeks to understand the impact of those ideas on the work of rival freedmen’s aid societies, on teachers, curriculum, Freedmen's Bureau, southern whites, and on the freedmen themselves. Both the ideologies and the reality …
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A History of Education for Black Students in Fairfax County Prior to 1954
… the Civil War other schools existed such as the Freedmen's Bureau schools. These schools functioned until 1871. By this time free public education was a reality in Virginia and the issue of placing both black and white children in the same school became the major topic of educational discussion. …
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WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION FROM AN EAST TEXAS PERSPECTIVE: NACOGDOCHES COUNTY FROM 1861-1876
… in the county as well as the activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau and their relationship with the citizens (both black and white).</p>
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From slavery to equal protection: the misinterpretation of the fourteenth amendment and its lasting effects on American society
… equal protection of the law to all newly freedmen. By engaging in this research, it is my goal to explain the Fourteenth Amendment as it was enacted and intended to be; as well as provide a comparative study of how it has been widely interpreted. In addition, I reference landmark Supreme …