Summary Of Ex-Slaves And The Rise Of Universal Education

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Kimani Elliott @02641895 Chapter 1 Summary: Ex-slaves and the rise of the Universal Education of the South, 1860-1880 This chapter discusses the beginning of the universal education. The struggle and the victory of a race whose want for education effected all the generations following. After the emancipation of slavery, ex-slaves began to have a hunger for education. Anyone in the community who had an ounce of understanding for reading and writing was sought after for to teach the others. As Booker T. Washington said, “ It was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn.” The South had it the hardest when it came to the pursuit of education. The government system there was
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