Title	Monthly Report of the Superintendent of Education, April 1867
Record type	Report
Creator	Burt, D.
Date of creation	1867-04-xx
Series	Records of Superintendents of Education M1000
Description	Educational form no. 1 is a chart.
Additional notes	Series M1000, Reel 6, [Frames 143-145]
Excerpt from record	"Monthly REPORT OF SCHOOLS, STATE SUPERINTENDENT State of Tennessee April 1867 COPY Forwarded April 5th, 1867 STATE SUPERINTENDENTS MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT To Bureau R. F. & A.L. for the month of April, 1867, ____ District, State of Tennessee" [This document records, in chart form, information concerning Freedmen’s Schools in Tennessee. The monthly report lists the communities with Freedmen’s Schools, societies that support them, and teacher and student demographics by school. The document concludes with statewide statistics and state official’s comments.] [Murfreesboro ‘I’ School had two day schools and one night school. There was one Sabbath School with 200 pupils. These schools opened in January 1864. The patron is listed as American Friends Universalist Committee. The freedmen owned one school building. There were eight teachers, six white and two ‘colored.’ There were 180 male students and 198 female students enrolled. The preceding report reported 398 pupils. During the month of March, 41 students left and 26 new students enrolled. Average attendance is listed at 255 with 216 students always present. Twenty-five students were over 16 years of age. The document further lists 229 advanced readers. One hundred and thirty-one students spell and read easy lessons. None of the students were free before the war.] [Murfreesboro ‘II’ School had one day school. There was one Sabbath School with 189 pupils. These schools opened in January 1867. The patron is listed as the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. One school building was partially sustained by the freedmen and they owned an additional school outright. One teacher was transported by the Bureau. There were two teachers; both were white. Gender course composition breakdown as follows: 87 male students and 115 female students were enrolled. The preceding report listed 159 enrolled pupils. During the month of March, four students left and 47 new students joined the school. Average attendance is listed at 130 with 105 students always present. Twenty-nine students were over 16 years of age. The document further lists 84 advanced readers and 46 pupils that could write. Eighty-three students spelled and read easy lessons. None of the students were free before the war.] [No Manual, High, or Normal Schools are recorded in Tennessee at this time.] [Signed by D. Burt, State Superintendent of Education, State of Tennessee.]
Geographic location	Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Burt, D. American Friends Universalist Committee
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Freedmen’s schools and textbooks Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Race Relations Racism Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County. Rutherford County (Tenn.) United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Coverage	1860-1869
Contributing institution	National Archives and Records Administration
Medium	Microfilm
Bibliographic citation	[Document title, date]. Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. Series M1000, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Freedmen's Bureau Records