In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Bo

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a

"A Manhattan Institute for Policy Research book"--T.p. verso. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 167-173.

Presents a collection of the author's poetry and prose.

Since its publication in 1977 to acclaim as a pioneering work, this has remained the first and only book to detail all aspects of a unique era in the history of