95. Virginia: The Women Who Did The Next Needed Thing with Sharon McMahon

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this solo state episode, Sharon returns us to a tumultuous time in US history: Reconstruction. After the Civil War, rebuilding the country was a messy task, but Black Americans knew that creating educational opportunities for their children was highly important. What started in rural Virginia as the success of one teacher–Virginia Randolph–who put love, care, and oftentimes her own salary into her one-room school, grew into an unstoppable educational evolution for Black students. Learn about Randolph’s philosophies, the creation of the Jeanes Foundation, and the teachers who continuously pushed themselves to do the next needed thing for their students and their communities.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, thank you so much for being here today! Oh my goodness, I have got a
0:06.1	fantastic story for you. You were gonna love this one so much. Virginia has just
0:13.7	an incredible amount of history to dive into. I could have taken this episode in
0:18.4	about 500 different ways, but I really think you're gonna love these brain
0:23.1	tingles about people. Maybe you're not familiar with, but you should be. So let's
0:28.5	dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast. All right
0:36.4	so let's return to the time after the Civil War has concluded. The Southern
0:44.6	portion of the United States tried to secede and failed. The Confederacy has
0:51.6	fallen and we are now left with a period of reconstruction and there's a lot
0:57.4	to be said about reconstruction. The way it was done and the after effects of
1:02.1	the way reconstruction took place in the United States, reconstruction being the
1:06.0	term of sort of rebuilding the United States from this fractured Union
1:11.2	versus Confederacy to being one nation again. And one of the after effects of
1:17.3	reconstruction was the continued systematic segregation and discrimination
1:23.8	that many enslaved people who had now been freed continued to face. And one of
1:30.8	the most challenging issues was surrounding the topic of education. Remember
1:36.1	that a lot of the American South was rural. It was agrarian and that made
1:42.9	education even a little bit more challenging because we're dealing with the
1:46.6	communities that are very far apart. They're spread out and they're small. So
1:51.3	reconstruction era rural education for black Americans in the South was
1:57.5	something that was a very difficult large undertaking and yet it was such an
2:03.7	important aspect of reconstruction, an important aspect of what was necessary to
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