Description: "Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored. - The Children Are From The Schools Established In New Orleans, By Order Of Major-General Banks" Harper's Weekly Jan 30, 1864 - (16 x 11 inches)Vintage Clipping - Good Condition - photographed in a plastic sleeve - actual color is a light newsprint tanPlease see all pictures for a complete item description, Thank you, mr.marc12345 The Civil War and Reconstruction brought new opportunities foreducation to black New Orleanians.New Orleans surrendered to Union troops in 1862 andwas spared the destruction meted out onother Southern cities later in the war. Union troops encouraged the public schools to reopen but also created aschool systemfor freed slaves. For two years following the Civil War, separate public schools for whites and blacks were run in parallel. In 1868, a new state constitutional convention dominated by newly enfranchised blacks and white Republicans adopted a constitutionthat required schools to be established on a common basis without segregation by race.Though there was initial resistance to school integration in New Orleans, a number ofschools did eventually operate smoothly as integrated institutions in the years1871-74. A detailed study of the period estimated that 500-1000 black students and several thousand white students were enrolled in 19 mixed race schools in the spring of 1874. A number of newprivate schools were also established during the period to take in white students whose parents would not send their children to integrated schools. Continued resistance to integration, combined with political resistanceto Republican rule, led to the formation of white supremacist organizations opposed to school integration. An attempt to integrate the all-white Upper Girls High School in 1874 led to white mob violence at the school. Vigilante groups then began to forcibly eject black students from integrated schools and street clashes between whites and blacks ensuedberof
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Publisher: Harper's Weekly
Topic: Emancipated
Subject: History
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