Introduction: Common Schools in the South
Political-Economic Dimensions of Reconstruction and Redemption
Reconstruction, Redemption, and African American Schooling
Booker T. Washington's Career
An Ideology of African American Inferiority
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Concluding Remarks
Primary Source Reading: Atlanta Exposition Address of 1895
Primary Source Reading: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Questions for Discussion and Examination