Ana Sara Malaquais question 3

  Q: For African Americans in the South after the Civil War, what help did they receive? What challenges did they face?
      
       After the Civil War, African Americans in the South received a better education. Some challenges that they faced were schools being broken open; bricks being hurled through the windows; schools not having floors; having to walk three miles a day, sometimes in ankle deep thick black mud that would pull off their shoes; and not being able to afford protection. Also, teachers were insulted for being black and didn't have "a cent of money" and as well, all they had to eat was "strong pork and sour bread". Despite all of these challenges, students were orderly and easily governed. They also were grateful and very interested to learn, they took care of books and school furniture, and they were open to their own freedom.

  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 
   

  For more info, you could also take  look at this book:
 Clinton, Catherine. Scholastic Encyclopedia Of The Civil War. New York: Fair street Productions, 1999. (print)