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"Negro" Education of the Reconstruction Era
The education of African American's in the southern reconstruction states was a very popular topic within newspapers of this time period because of how strong their hateful, criticizing opinions were on it. Everyone within the southern states were outraged in an uproar over not only having black infiltrate their schools, but about having to pay taxes that went to "negro" schools. I thought this was very noteworthy because I did not realize solely negro schools existed and did not realize whites were paying taxes to fund them. It was also extremely interesting that while most whites opposed this taxation, a small few were okay with it and wanted to use it as a bargaining tool. Self-servingly, they were interested in these schools because they hoped to compromise with the radical republicans by allowing these schools if the radicals would not force the Civil Rights Bill on them. I was very surprised about the white kids in school at the time because not only were their parents extremely racist, they were too. For example, one white and one black school was doing a procession together in Williamsburg and the whites were set to proceed behind the blacks. Thus, these young white school-age children rebelled and refused to go due to the racist beliefs ingrained into them from birth.
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