Freedmen's Bureau Schools: 4,000 Schools, 247,000 Students by 1870

By 1870 the Freedmen's Bureau had helped establish over 4,000 schools serving ~247,000 students, staffed by ~9,300 teachers. It partnered with the American Missionary Association and helped found Fisk, Howard, and Hampton universities. Formerly enslaved communities organized self-taxation to build schoolhouses. The school network was a primary Klan target.