The first postwar schools were former clandestine schools, operating openly by January 1865. Literate black men and women opened new, self-sustaining schools. Northern freedmen's aid organizations began establishing schools in mid-1865. Of the nearly fifty aid societies working in freedmen's education in the 1860s, only seven were active in Georgia. read more
The school that was founded under the Reconstruction would be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. read more