Educational Reconstruction

Hilary N. Green is the James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. A distinguished scholar, her research explores the intersections of race, memory, and education in the post–Civil War American South. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890, co-author of the NPS-OAH Historic Resource Study of African American Schools in the South, 1865–1900, and co-editor of The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 (Fordham).

• List 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

"... A significant contribution to our understanding of the long Reconstruction era, and to the origins of Booker T. Washington's ascendancy." -- -Mike Fitzgerald