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McAfee, Ward.

Religion, race, and Reconstruction : the public school in the politics of the 1870s / Public school in the politics of the 1870s Ward M. McAfee. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �1998. - 1 online resource (x, 317 pages) - SUNY series, religion and American public life . - SUNY series, religion and American public life. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-304) and index.

Prologue to the seventies -- Church, state, and school -- Dividing the school funds -- Educating the freedmen -- Federal aid to education -- Reconstruction's racial dissolution -- Backlash: 1874 -- The anti-Catholic antidote -- The end of Reconstruction.

ISBN: 0585059322 9780585059327

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1800-1899

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Education--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Public schools--History--United States--19th century.
Church and education--History--United States--19th century.
African Americans--Education--History--19th century.
EDUCATION--Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION--Administration--General.
African Americans--Education.
Church and education.
Education--Political aspects.
Public schools.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History.

LC Class. No.: LC89 / .M33 1998eb

Dewey Class. No.: 371.01/0973