Date of Award

1-24-2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

James Ross

Second Advisor

Barkley Key

Abstract

Arkansas was one of the last states to develop a public primary and secondary school system for African American students. While education was for the most part privatized, an important philosophy for educating African Americans was developed early by the Free African Society and AME Church that influenced Arkansas public and private Freedman education. This thesis looks into that and competing philosophies and examines how obstacles were presented to impede African American education and thereby obstruct their entry socially, economically and politically into American society. Moreover, how elites knowingly and repeatedly attempted to install a defective educational system that would result in mis-educating African American students in their attempt to create a permanent underclass.

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