Further Reading
Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Baumgartner, Kabria. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
Butchart, Ronald E. Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Du Bois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. New York: The Free Press, 1935.
Davis, Thulani. The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
Fairclough, Adam. A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper and Row Publishing, 1988.
Green, Hilary. Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.
Jones, Jacqueline. Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks 1865-1873. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.