EDUCATING NEGRO CHILDREN IN THE CHEROKEE NATION:
PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS—1869-1907
James G. McCullagh
This article discusses the development of and lists the common schools originally designated for the Freedmen ‘s children and later other Negro children, from 1869 through 1907. The article also lists the teachers—primarily Cherokee—who taught the Freedmen ‘s children in exclusively segregated schools with a few exceptions. White, and, in time, Freedmen, and State Negroes, “ or non-citizens, also were teachers in the Freedmen schools. Over the next 40 years, beginning in 1867, the number of common schools for Cherokee children dramatically increased among the nine districts of the Cherokee Nation ending with an approximate total of 120 schools when the Nation was dissolved Beginning with three schools in 1869 for Freedmen children by the fall semester 1907, there were 32 schools for Freedmen children and other Negro children.