Black Education in Alabama, 1865-1901

Explains and describes the development of black private and public, elementary, secondary, normal, and collegiate education in Alabama from emancipation to 1901 The study of education in Alabama is especially important in understanding black education throughout the United States since the most famous black school, Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, is located in Alabama and began as a state teachers’ training school. A history of black education in Alabama provides a test case of the frequently assumed dominance of Booker T. Washington and his plan of industrial’‘ or vocational training in black education.