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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Caught in the Crossfire: Factors Influencing the Closing of Missouri's Black Schools, 1865-1905
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Hunt, John W.; Morice, Linda C. – American Educational History Journal, 2008
This essay explores factors creating Missouri's minimum attendance laws for black students from the end of the Civil War to the enactment of compulsory education in the state in 1905. It argues that, although blacks made notable efforts at educational advancement, they were caught in a crossfire of opposing forces stemming from wartime…
Descriptors: United States History, Compulsory Education, War, Counties
By the Numbers: Minimum Attendance Laws and Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Missouri, 1865-1905
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Morice, Linda C.; Hunt, John W. – American Educational History Journal, 2007
This study details the enactment of attendance laws for black pupils in Missouri and describes their effect by citing examples from two counties: St. Louis County and Polk County. The study is based on a review of primary sources yielding quantitative and qualitative data reported during the first 40 years of the attendance laws. A study of…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Rural Areas, Counties, Educational Opportunities