Misses Cooke's School Room, Freedmen's Bureau, Richmond, Va.

Misses Cooke's School Room, Freedmen's Bureau, Richmond, Va.

African Americans, education

This was one of many schools that opened in Richmond after the Civil War. Men and women arrived under the auspices of northern missionary and beneficial societies to help educate the freedpeople, who had been denied education under slavery. The Freedmen's Bureau helped provide the infrastructure to maintain and administer schools in Virginia.

James E. Taylor

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, November 17, 1866, p. 132

Frank Leslie

1866

Library of Virginia

CC BY-SA

JPG

Engraving

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Richmond, Virginia