Reports Relating to the Education of Freedmen
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 2: Records Relating to Specific Bureau Functions
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M979, Subseries 2.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Two series of unbound reports are from the Superintendent of Education to the Assistant Commissioner. First are monthly reports from the Superintendent of Education, February 1867–April 1869, arranged chronologically. They give information about the education available to freedmen, the condition of the schools, progress of the pupils, and the attitudes of local white inhabitants toward the schools.

The second series consists of monthly statistical school reports from the Superintendent of Education, February 1866–July 1867, May 1868, and January–March 1869, arranged chronologically. They contain data about the number of pupils, teachers, and schools in the State and the attendance of students at the various schools.