Event details

Date

August 7, 2019 6:00PM

Title

Separate and Unequal: African Americans’ Struggle for Schooling before and after the Civil War

Description

Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street

The Historic New Orleans Collection is pleased to present an evening that brings together authors illuminating the unique relationship between race and education in New Orleans. Moderated by David Robinson-Morris, this panel discussion will feature Fatima Shaik, Dan Brook, and Walter C. Stern. These writers, each of whom has done extensive work in concert with THNOC, will discuss educational history in New Orleans from the antebellum era through Reconstruction and the twentieth century. Click here to read the speakers’ full biographies.