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2023
2024

Reconstructing Education: The Freedmen's Bureau Schools

NAI Direct Access

  • Talaya Grimes, Director/Producer
Dr. Omar Price, historian, and Susan Pearl, Librarian and Historian of Prince George's County, Maryland Historical Society are reviewing a historic 1800s map and are pointing out former Freedmen Bureau School Sites in the County. They are in the library of the Historical Society.

About the Project

Country: United States

The contentious post-Civil War public/private partnership between Black communities, the U.S. Government, and the White charitable societies that founded The Freedmen's Bureau schools across the South to educate freed African Americans during the Reconstruction era is told in this documentary through an exploration of southern history and the Bureau’s management records of schools in Prince George's County, Maryland.