Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-304) and index.
Contents:
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.
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