Historians of urban education have concentrated their attention on the cities of the Northeast, leaving a major gap in the historiography of American schooling. This work, the first to focus on southern cities, makes an important contribution to the field. It presents case studies of growth and change in the public school systems of six cities in the deep South, together with several essays that place the southern experience in a comparative historical and historiographical context.
Plank and Ginsberg examine the impact of conditions that have shaped public education in the urban South...
Historians of urban education have concentrated their attention on the cities of the Northeast, leaving a major gap in the historiography of Americ...
