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| Education was important to the
newly freed slaves. Even older people wanted more than anything to learn to
read. It was through education that they thought the race would progress.
What we now call 'historically black colleges' offered higher education to
former slaves as well as free blacks. This quest for education continued in
the new century as blacks saw education as the key to equality. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger image.
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