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What education there was for African Americans was usually the result of concerted programs of self-help. Because white southern school boards routinely denied black taxpayers the funds necessary to construct black schools, in the 1910s and 1920s blacks pooled their limited resources and embarked on programs of school construction. Sharecroppers who had been born slaves donated their meager life savings so their grandchildren could have an education. Even people without children mortgaged their homes and lands to fund the schools. Black communities farmed communal lands and used the profits to finance local schools. People who lived in shanties without glass windows or running water banded together to construct one-, two-, and three-room schoolhouses. Those who had no money donated time and labor. Black lumberjacks cut down trees and hewed the pine necessary to build the schools. Women donated food and cooked meals for the laborers...
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