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The Peabody Education Fund and Negro Education, 1867–1880

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Earle H. West
Earle H. West*
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Howard University
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Aid to the “suffering south,” especially educational aid, was the concern of many groups after the Civil War. Alongside the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Yankee schoolmarms was the Peabody Education Fund, first of the major educational foundations in this country. After the soldiers, agents, and missionaries had gone, the Peabody Fund remained an influence upon southern education for nearly fifty years.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1966 , pp. 3 - 21
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Copyright © 1966 History of Education Quarterly 

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