The Education of Negroes in St. Louis, Missouri, During William Torrey Harris' Administration

In 1866, on the 20th and 21st of June, the State Teachers' Convention was held once again in St. Louis.2 It was planned to discuss the establishment of a State Normal Institute, to revive the Teachers' State Association which had been so badly disrupted by the Civil War, to publish a State Educational Journal, and to consider various other problems of high significance. This reviving activity was only symptomatic of the general trend in educational circles. While during the War of the Rebellion people had been concerned with recession and conservation, and with progression only to a very limited degree, they were now caught up in the general psychosis of advancement. And St. Louis went into it with a vengeance. The Public School authorities had always cast about for ways and means

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