What Were Freedman Schools?
What Were Freedman Schools? The first postwar schools were former clandestine schools, operating openly by January 1865. Literate Black men and women opened new, self-sustaining schools. … Meanwhile, Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, in March 1865. What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do for schools?