EDUC 50 Lecture 5: EDUC 50 – Week 3 Lecture Notes
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Schools segregated by race with some expectations. No southern states had comprehensive, free public education even for white, and public schools for blacks, when present, were usually underfunded. Teaching slaves to read and write was punishable by death. Formal public education came to the south following the civil war. Increase in schools for african-americans, backed by the freedman"s bureau. Bureau also helped find lost family members, taught literacy, and acted as legal advocates. White retook south through violence and fraud (kkk, disenfranchisement, jim crow. Dismissed previous reformers as carpetbaggers who were only there to exploit the south. 1874: white league removed the provision from the constitution. 1879: state constitution rewritten to permit segregation. 1898: state constitution rewritten to mandate it. Originally about segregated railroad cars, but had wide implications. The nadir of race relations (1890"s 1950"s) De jure segregation in the south for decades. Woodrow wilson segregated the military and federal workplaces.
