Tag: teachers
Say Her Name: Julia Hayden, Black Teacher/White Death
Julia Hayden was a seventeen year old set to the exciting task of beginning her career as a teacher of young Black children in Tennessee….
“Threats Against Teachers of Colored Schools” by the Klan Tennessee March 1868
Freedmen’s schools were an early and frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. This article reports that the teachers of black children were being expelled…