id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-444 Civil rights movement (1865–1896) - Wikipedia .html text/html 13764 1604 65 Historian Hilary Green says it "was not merely a fight for access to literacy and education, but one for freedom, citizenship, and a new postwar social order."[44] The black community and its white supporters in the North emphasized the critical role of education is the foundation for establishing equality in civil rights.[45] Anti-literacy laws for both free and enslaved black people had been in force in many southern states since the 1830s,[46] The widespread illiteracy made it urgent that high on the African-American agenda was creating new schooling opportunities, including both private schools and public schools for black children funded by state taxes. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-444.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-444.txt