New Orleans has a few desegregated schools for a brief time during Reconstruction, but nobody makes it work in the rural parishes. So Twitchell though, he does create black schools. He creates ...

During Black History Month, it is important to look at how far the education system for Black people has come. When slavery ...

Drew Gilpin Faust: Mary Lee of Winchester [Virginia] says at the end of the war, "Political reconstruction ... Union Leagues, black militia units, schools. They want to go back as far as they ...

A historic elementary school in Marion County could close. Tonight, there’s a discussion planned on what should happen next. Fessenden Elementary School was founded in 1868, making it one of Marion ...