TO EDUCATE A RACE: THE MAKING OF THE FIRST STATE COLORED NORMAL SCHOOL, FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 1865-1877. |
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Huddle, Mark Andrew.
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1/1/97
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Journal
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North Carolina Historical Review
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74(2)p.135-160
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African American
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In 1877 the North Carolina legislature authorized two thousand dollars for a normal school for black teachers in Fayetteville. The legislature chose Fayetteville after a heavy lobbying effort bythe African Methodist Episcopal Zion bishop and other community leaders and in recognition of vigorous educational activity by black Fayetteville citizens between 1865 and 1877. Fayetteville sblack community had a strong educational tradition that stretched to the clandestine schooling that emerged due to enforcement of slave codes in urban Fayetteville beginning in the1820 s. During Reconstruction that tradition was bolstered by the educational efforts of the Congregationalist American Missionary Association and by a remarkable level of whitesupport for the Freedmen s Bureau. Such cooperation supported the establishment of primary and secondary schools, as well as the normal school, which became Fayetteville StateUniversity in 1969.
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