Education

• What was one area where black Americans were able to improve their lives?

  Education
• What did black American teachers and parents establish?

  A tradition of educational self-help
• What helped to improve black education?

  The support of the Freedman's Bureau, white charities and missionary socities
• What is an example of a black American that was established?

  The Freedmen's school in St.Helena, South Carolina
• When was the black American school in S.Carolina founded?

  1862, following Union occupation of the are
• What does AMA stand for?

  American Missionary Association
• What did the AMA establish?

  Fisk
• What did the Fisk Congressional society establish?

  Howard University in 1867
• Who was president of Howard university?

  General Oliver Howard from 1869-74
• How many freedmen did Howard university educate?

  150,000 in its first five years of operation
• When was Fisk set up?

  1866
• When was Morehouse College set up?

  1867
• When was Tuskegee Institute set up?

  1881
• Who set up the Tuskegee institute?

  Booker T. Washington
• What was Baltimore city pushed to do in the 1870s and 80s?

  To begin hiring black teachers for the city's segregated colored schools