Minute book from the Fayette Free School

American James Pryor Morrison

1870

Medium: ink on paper (fiber product) with leather
Genre: Minute books
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Styles

minute books

Tags

Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877communitieseducationEmancipation

About

A small brown leather minute book with handwritten minutes from the Fayette Free School, April 1872, recorded by J.P. Morrison, Board Clerk. Content includes reminder to enumerate children, arrangements for school for children of color in church basement, and difference in teacher salaries. Several pages have been torn from the front of the book.