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Title: | E. J. Edmunds, school integration, and white supremacist backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans |
Authors: | Zelbo, Sian Elizabeth 0000-0002-3819-6104 |
Keywords: | Educational History United States History African American Teachers Racial Bias Racial Discrimination High School Teachers Politics of Education Public Schools School Desegregation Urban Schools Civil Rights movements African American Education Multiracial Persons Access to Education Educational Discrimination Louisiana (New Orleans) Southern schools Redeemers |
Issue Date: | Aug-2019 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Citation: | Zelbo, S. E. (2019). E. J. Edmunds, school integration, and white supremacist backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans. History of Education Quarterly, 59(3), 379-406. |
Series/Report no.: | History of Education Quarterly;59(3) |
Abstract: | When the New Orleans school board appointed E. J. Edmunds, a light-skinned Afro-Creole man, the mathematics teacher for the city's best high school in 1875, the senior students walked out rather than have a "negro" as a teacher of "white youths." Edmunds's appointment was a final, bold act by the city's mixed-race intellectual elite in exercising the political power they held under Radical Reconstruction to strip racial designations from public schools. White supremacist Redeemers responded with a vicious propaganda campaign to define, differentiate, and diminish the "negro race." Edmunds navigated the shifting landscape of race in the New Orleans public schools first as a student and then as a teacher, and the details of his life show the impact on ordinary Afro-Creoles as the city's warring politicians used the public schools both to undermine and reinforce the racial order. |
Description: | Scholarly article / Open access |
URI: | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335019197_E_J_Edmunds_School_Integration_and_White_Supremacist_Backlash_in_Reconstruction_New_Orleans https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/10107 |
ISSN: | 0018-2680; 1748-5959 |
Appears in Collections: | Stern College for Women -- Faculty Publications |
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