Blacks In Education (including discrimination)

Thousands of former African American slaves began their search for better education although the white institutions made it difficult.  From 1865-1868 blacks founded the Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk Universities with the assistance of the Freedman's Bureau and other groups concerned for the future of the blacks.

By 1900 only 3,880 out of 9 million blacks were able to attend college or professional schools since no one could fund for the black's college education.  Booker T. Washington was born a slave and graduated from Virginia's Hampton Institute.  Booker had been an extremely important and popular African American educator.  He believed racism would come to an end as soon as blacks possessed labor skills and showed their importance in society.  In 1881 he became the head of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which is now known as the Tuskegee University, Alabama.  This institution had been organized to give the African Americans teaching diplomas and useful skills in agricultural, domestic, or mechanical work.

 Immigrants In Education (including discrimination)

Immigrants were encourage to go to school, unlike blacks. Most immigrants put there children in Americas free public schools, where 10 million european immigrants between 1860 and 1890. some adult immigrants went to highschool to learn english and qualify for american citizenship children had to learn english, also.