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| Title: | Reconstruction and Black education |
| Date: | 1830-1900 |
| Description: | Before the Civil War, most southern states made it illegal to educate slaves, but many enslaved people did learn to read and write. During the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, the number of schools and the literacy rate for African Americans increased dramatically. This mini-documentary, produced for the American Experience: "Reconstruction" Web site, follows the development of schools for African Americans as well as the resistance it sparked. Includes a background essay, discussion questions, and alignments to teaching standards. Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. Grade range: 3-12. Lesson plans using this resource: Re-Examining Brown. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Instructional materials | Teaching guides | Resource units | Videorecordings |
| Subjects: | Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 | Motley, Constance Baker, 1921- | Brownell, Herbert, 1904- | Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 | Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 | African Americans--Segregation | African Americans--Civil rights | African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc. | Minorities--Education | Discrimination in education | Segregation in education | United States--Race relations | Equality | Attorneys general | United States. Supreme Court | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Southern Manifesto, 1956 | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) | American Experience (Television program) | Little Rock (Ark.) | Pulaski County (Ark.) |
| Collection: | Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection |
| Institution: | WGBH Educational Foundation |
| Contributors: | Eisenhower (PBS) | Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection | WGBH Educational Foundation |
| Online Publisher: | [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation | 2002/2008 |
| Rights and Usage: | The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of: Teacher's Domain Civil Right Special Collection. Forms part of: American Experience (PBS Television Series). A Quicktime player may be needed to view the streaming video. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/osi04.soc.ush.civil.reconstruction/ |
