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Title	Monthly Report of the Superintendent of Education, February 1867
Record type	Report
Creator	Burt, D.
Date of creation	1867-02-xx
Series	Records of Superintendents of Education M1000
Description	Educational form no. 1 is a chart.
Additional notes	Series M1000, Reel 6, [Frames 129-131]
Excerpt from record	"Monthly REPORT OF SCHOOLS, STATE SUPERINTENDENT State of Tennessee February 1867 COPY Forwarded March 1st, 1867 STATE SUPERINTENDENTS MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT To Bureau R. F. & A.L. for the month of February, 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 School [I] had four day schools. 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 six teachers, four white and two ‘colored.’ Gendered student breakdown is listed as 187 male and 214 female enrolled students. The preceding report listed 408 pupils. During the month of February, 31 students left and 24 new students enrolled. Average attendance is listed at 316 with 272 students always present. Forty-nine students were over 16 years of age. The document further lists 217 advanced readers. One hundred and fifty-eight students spelled and read easy lessons. Twenty students could write. None of the students were free before the Civil War.] [This document records, in chart form, information concerning Freedmen’s Schools in Tennessee. Murfreesboro School [II] had one day school. There was one Sabbath School with 80 pupils. These schools opened in January 1864. The patron is listed as Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The freedmen owned one school building. The school had one white teacher. There were 100 male students and 100 female students enrolled at the school. Two hundred new students enrolled in the month of February. Average attendance is listed at 150 with 100 students always present. Forty students were over 16 years of age. The document further lists 30 advanced readers. One hundred and seventy-eight students spelled and read easy lessons. One hundred and twenty-seven students could write. Ten students were free before the Civil War.] [The document lists three industrial schools statewide with 166 pupils who learned to sew and knit. In total, there were three High and Normal Schools.] [Signed D. Bush, Superintendent of Education]
Geographic location	Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Burt, D. American Friends Universalist Committee Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
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