Implementation and Administration of Radical Education in Texas: Politics or Reform in Education from 1870-1873
Description:
This study examines the efforts of Radicals (Republicans) to establish a state-wide public school system in Texas between 1870 and 1873. Primary sources cover the chronological fringes of the period being examined. This study follows a chronological narrative with the four chapters examining first, educational trends in the southern states and Texas prior to Reconstruction, followed by examination of the Radical system in Texas, and, finally, its destruction by Conservative Texans. The final ch…
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Date:
August 1976
Creator:
McClellan, Michael E.