Title: Black school - Wikipedia
Headings: Black school
Black school
Contents
History
Rosenwald Schools
Citizenship Schools
Freedom Schools
Desegregation
Busing
Re-segregation
See also
References
Further reading

Content: Contents
1 History
1.1 Rosenwald Schools
1.2 Citizenship Schools
1.3 Freedom Schools
1.4 Desegregation
1.4.1 Busing
2 Re-segregation
3 See also
4 References
5 Further reading
History
After the Civil War there were only a handful of schools open to blacks, such as the African Free School in New York and the Abiel Smith School in Boston. Individuals and churches, especially the Quakers, sometimes provided instruction. The proposal to set up a "colored" college in New Haven produced a violent reaction, and the project was abandoned. Schools in which black and white children studied together were destroyed by mobs in Connecticut and New Hampshire. Few African Americans in the South received any education at all until after the Civil War. Slaves had been prohibited from being educated, and there was generally no public school system for white children, either. The planter elite paid for private education for its children. Legislatures of Republican freedmen and whites established public schools for the first time during the Reconstruction era. At the beginning of the Reconstruction era, teachers in integrated schools were predominantly white. Black educators and education leadership found that many of these white teachers "...effectively convinced black students that they were inferior."