Kayla Rivera
Question; For African Americans in the South after the Civil war, what help did they recieve? What challenges did they face?
After the Civil War, African American women not only got a better education, they were also taught domestic skills such as nursing,cooking, laundering, and housekeeping at colleges such as Tuskegee,Hampton, and Howard University. With that help, they were able to use those skills to open resturants and become great entrepeneurs. However, some challenges that they were facing were that students had to walk about three miles a day, ankles deep in thick black mud and barely eating with pork and sour bread--- teachers also being insulted for being a ''Black Teachers''.
Source; The Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen, Department of the Gulf, for the Year 1864 by the U.S Army, printed in 1865 in New Orleans, available on Google Books
Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000055/PP/
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ReplyDeleteSo this tells me that other African American women were able to rise from the war, when others were insulted for being African.
ReplyDeleteI agree that African American has to walk about three miles a day, ankles deep in thick black mud and barely eating with pork because in my research I also founded out the same things. To build on your ideas, African American suffer their life to goes to school because some white people thrown bricks at them
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about African American women because in mt research I found out the same thing as you
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about African Americans now have better education and skills, because I read a passage about better education too.
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