Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Lipscomb, Sarah Elisabeth
URN	etd-04112005-131603
Title	A Crisis of Opportunity: The Example of New Orleans and Public Education in Antebellum Louisiana
Degree	Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department	History
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title William J. Cooper, Jr. Committee Chair John C. Rodrigue Committee Member Katherine Benton-Cohen Committee Member
Keywords	antebellum public education Louisiana schools New Orleans schools Louisiana education New Orleans education public schools southern education
Date of Defense	2005-03-14
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the development of public education in antebellum Louisiana. Using primarily public records, I found that despite the successful system instituted in New Orleans in the early 1840s, the rest of Louisiana faltered in its attempts to establish free public schools. Notwithstanding the requirement contained in the 1845 Constitution that each parish must organize public schools, the lack of guidance, supervision, and funding from the state legislature all coalesced to condemn public education in most of the rest of the state. As public schools in New Orleans thrived throughout the decades leading up to the Civil War, the city’s school system would stand in stark contrast to public schools in the rest of the state that proved unable to overcome the obstacles encountered.
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