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  • How Reconstruction created American public education

    Nov 14, 2023 10:45 am by The AtlanticIllinois in the News
    one-room African American school house in Newberry County, South Carolina. Credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

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    The Atlantic (Nov. 13) 'At least 126 public schools in Louisiana overseen by the (Freedman's) Bureau faced closure from the combination of white terrorism, financial woes and incompetence,' U of I Professor James D. Anderson says.