M   3) For African Americans in the South after the Civil War, what help did they receive? What challenges did they face? In the report of the Board of Education for Freedmen, department of the gulf The Perspective of Teachers at African American schools in 1864 by The U.S Army, It shows all the hardships African American teachers and students faced after the Civil War. For example " Students did well enough until it rained, and since then they had to walk three miles ankle deep in thick black mud that pulls off shoes.Nothing to eat but strong pork and sour bread" This shows just some of the problems students had to go through. Just Like teachers had to go trough problems to as it says in the article "Insulted for being a 'black teacher.' can't buy anything on credit and i haven't a cent of money." A problem both students and teachers faced was " school shed has no floor " just imagine your classroom having muddy floors instead of concrete. These students received no help as it says in the text "the provost marshall won't help me says he don't believe in (black) teachers." 

   

  

   MLA Citations:

Mettger, Zak. Till Victory Is Won. Dutton Newyork: lodestar books, 1994 (PRINT)

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