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Knowledge is Power: The Black Struggle for Literacy (Post Civil-War (1865)…

- - - - Asked for universal education
        
        Why education? A value passed down from African villages
        
        "if I could learn to read and write, this learning might, nay, I really thought it would point out to me the way to freedom, influence and real secure happiness" Thomas Jones, Freed Slave
        
        When slaves learned they passed it on
        
        Secret schools: Deveaux, Miss L, and Milla Grandison
        
        They wrote their own passports--Knowledge is Power
        
        Slave schools in every major city, and on many plantations: " special form of slave resistance and revolt"
        
        Reconstruction (1868)
        
        For a short time, blacks were allowed to hold some political power--held office; Black schools spring up all over
        
        Parents sacrifice anything to insure their children go to school
        
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        Self-help was essential to black education during the early years after the war, because state and federal efforts were neither nonexistent, limited, or undependable.
        
        By 1876, White southerners once again in power and what blacks had built was destroyed
        
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      - Willing to pay, not asking for handouts
        
        Education to Uplift