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N. H. R. Dawson: United States Commissioner of Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Kenneth R. Johnson
Kenneth R. Johnson*
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Florence State University
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Extract

The United States Bureau of Education was never popular with Southerners, who saw it as a potential instrument of federal intervention into state affairs. But in spite of Southern opposition in Congress, the bureau grew in size and influence after its creation in 1867.

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Notes and Documents I
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Summer 1971 , pp. 174 - 183
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Copyright © 1971 History of Education Quarterly 

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