Historic Resource Study of African American Schools in the South, 1865–1900
Green H and Hébert K. 2022. Historic Resource Study of African American Schools in the South, 1865–1900. Historic Resource Study. National Park Service. Washington, DC
Historic Resource Study of African American Schools in the South, 1865–1900, examines the development of Black post-emancipation schools in the American South and identifies ten case studies that are representative of the types of historic buildings and sites the National Park Service (NPS) will encounter in and around their management areas. In this report, the American South includes all states where slavery remained legal prior to 1861, except for Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas. This study is divided into two sections. Section 1 places the postbellum (after 1865) rise of Black education in the broader context of American history and what historians now refer to as the long civil rights movement (c.1863–c.1968). Section 2 provides a representative sampling of ten historic buildings and sites that convey the contextual history provided in Section 1. Together, this report’s sections are intended to serve as resources to help NPS staff assess the story of Black education in and around their parks and identify potential places and interpretative strategies to convey that history to their visitors. N.B. The report version uploaded in September 2022 was removed, and a corrected version of the report was uploaded in November 2022 with revisions made to the Tolson's Chapel case study.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Green, Hilary; Hébert, Keith
- Date of Issue
- 2022-08
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ANTI , CANE , CHCH , FOMC , FORA , HAFE , JELA , NATR , NCR , REER , SEMO , SER
- Keywords
- African American, Black history, citizenship, civil rights, Civil War, education, equal rights, equality, historic preservation, historic resource study, history, institutions, Jim Crow, preservation, Reconstruction, schools, segregation