EDFD 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Port Royal Experiment, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Sea Islands
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?the "separate but equal" doctrine became the constitutional basis for legal racial segregation. State of education for african americans during reconstruction. In the confederacy states it had been illegal to teach the 4 million slaves. Black schools after the civil war began a history of entrenched poverty, racial segregation, underpaid black teachers, and lowered academic expectations for children of color . Congress failed to provide funding for black schools and didn t hold states accountable for the education of former slaves. State of education for african americans during reconstruction (2) 1915 3 times per pupil spending on white students, black teachers 1/3 the pay of white teachers. Vocationalism remained the main push for philanthropists and politicians for black students (and white immigrants) Program during the civil war former slaves worked land abandoned by planters. Port royal was liberated by the union in 1861. Northerners were allowed to set up schools to begin teaching freedmen who remained on the islands.