id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt RefID-247-zelbo2019e. Zelbo,Sian E. J. Edmunds, School Integration, and White Supremacist Backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans 2019 .txt text/plain 147 4 43 Edmunds's appointment was a final, bold act by the city's mixed-race intellectual elite in exercising the political power they held under Radical Reconstruction to strip racial designations from public schools. Edmunds navigated the shifting landscape of race in the New Orleans public schools first as a student and then as a teacher, and the details of his life show the impact on ordinary Afro-Creoles as the city's warring politicians used the public schools both to undermine and reinforce the racial order. cache/RefID-247-zelbo2019e..txt txt/RefID-247-zelbo2019e..txt