African-Americans in US Schools. Condition of African-Americans before the Civil War In the South- slavery- dangerous to educate In the North- education.

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African-Americans in US Schools

Condition of African-Americans before the Civil War In the South- slavery- dangerous to educate In the North- education still primarily relegated to whites Sarah Roberts case- Boston

Condition of African- Americans after the Civil War Freedman’s Bureau schools 114,000 enrolled by 1869 Staffed by northern schoolteachers After Reconstruction- ???

Colleges and Universities

Washington vs. Dubois

Separate But Equal Plessy vs. Ferguson case (1896) Upheld “separate but equal” doctrine- applied to schools until 1954

Brown vs. Board of Education Came from several related cases (including Briggs vs. Elliot in SC) Overturned “separate but equal” Integrate with all deliberate speed

Aftermath of Brown Little Rock- Central High School

1970s- Boston attempts to integrate

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