San Antonio, TX, United States
Site of Rincon/Douglass School. Following the Civil War and the emancipation of American slaves, the federal goverment established the Freedmen's Bureau to oversee programs aimed at educating and assisting blacks with their newly-granted citizenship. One of the most visibleof the Bureau's program wa
s the organization and building of schools. The first free public school for blacks in San Antonio was built on this site in the late 1860s. Operated by the local office of the Freedman's Bureau,the s
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