Monthly Reports From Superintendents and Agents
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1871
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1871 / Series 5: School Reports
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content: bulk June–Sept. 1865, Nov. 1866–Oct. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M980, Subseries 5.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The reports from superintendents and agents, June–September 1865 and November 1866–October 1868, are arranged by month and thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of name of county. They usually list names and locations of the schools and the societies that sponsored them. The reports show whether the schools were maintained by the freedmen or by societies, whether the building was supplied by the Bureau or by owned by the freedmen, the amount of tuition paid by the freedmen, and the Bureau's expenses for the school. The reports also give the following information about the pupils at each school: sex; color; number of pupils over 16 years of age; degree of literacy; number of pupils in geography, arithmetic, writing, needlework, and the "Higher Branches"; and the number who were free before the war. Interfiled with the reports described above are forms submitted in 1868 by the superintendents and agents concerning education in the subdistrict. The 19 questions on the form relate to the number of visits by the officer to the school, the established of new schools in the area, the need for continued northern charitable aid, and public sentiment toward education for the freedmen.