Edwin Washington Project

Background

One of our goals is to identify which textbooks were provided by the School Board for Black students in the segregated system and whether they were different from books used by whites. This page constitutes the beginning of that study. The plan is to eventually buy a copy of each for the Edwin Washington Research Center so that contemporary generations can see what their ancestors used.

Link to main Curriculum and Textbook page.

Preliminary List  (some were identified only by type,  not title)

• Appleton's Geography, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Barne's U.S. History, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Cutter's Physiologies, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Complete Arithmetic, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Elementary Arithmetic, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Fiche's and Young's Civil Government, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Glass Spelling Blanks, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Graphic Copy-Books, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Independent Book, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Johnson's Readers, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Johnson's Young American, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Language Grammar, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Lee's History of U.S. , 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Maury's Geographies, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• McGill's Stories, Supplemenary Readers, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• McGuffey's First Reader, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• McGuffey's Fourth Reader, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Merrille's Spellers, 1898 (Lovetesville Colored)
• McGuffey's Fifth Reader, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Smithey's History of Virginia, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Thompson's Drawing, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Venable's Arithmetics, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Webster's Dictionary, 1897 (Lovettesville Colored)
• Whitney and Lockwood and Clydes Grammars, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Worcester's Dictionaries, 1898 (Lovettsville Colored)
• Zuchtman's Music System, American Music