Record #:

16195

Author(s):

Renfer, Betty Dishong; Sandifer, Alex

Abstract:

African American education, denied before the Civil War by the state's anti-literacy laws, actually began during the war when Vincent Coyler, a Union army chaplain, organized the first school for freed people on July 23, 1863. Various organizations were charged with establishing freedmen schools within the state and two men heading this initiative were Reverends Samuel S. Ashley and James Walker Hood.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 37 Issue 1, Fall 1997, p16-17, il

Subject(s):

African Americans--Education