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Appointment: The New England Freedman’s Aid Society, A teacher of Freed People in North Carolina

From the North Carolina Digital Collections

Freedmen's Aid Society - Timeline Event

From the Association of Religion Data Archives.

Freedmen's Aid Society records - Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives Research Center Finding Aids

The Freedmen’s Aid Society was an agency of the Methodist Episcopal Church created after the Civil War for the purpose of establishing schools and colleges for African Americans in the South.

Freedmen's Aid Society Records (Finding Aid) | Atlanta University Center

The Freedmen's Aid Society was an agency of the Methodist Episcopal Church created after the Civil War for the purpose of establishing schools and colleges for African Americans in the South. A great part of the work of the society was in supporting teachers in various institutions begun by or connected with Freedmen's Aid, and in preparing young men for the ministry. Finding aid only.

Harbison Agricultural College Photograph Collection

South Caroliniana Library, University Libraries Special Collections.

New England Freedmen's Aid Society Records

New York Public Library - Methodist adventures in Negro education

Rosenwald School (Wikipedia)

Smithsonian Magazine - Inside the Rosenwald Schools

"Between 1917 and 1932, nearly 5,000 rural schoolhouses, modest one-, two-, and three-teacher buildings known as Rosenwald Schools, came to exclusively serve more than 700,000 black children over four decades."

South Carolina Department of Archives and History - Rosenwald Schools

The Rosenwald Schools: Progressive Era Philanthropy in the Segregated South

This lesson is part of the National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program.

WorldCat Identities - Freedmen's Aid Society