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Keys to Success

Keys to Success
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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 5 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   9.46

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    Post-Civil, well-paying, teaching, well-known, unconstitutional, Wilberforce, provided, founded, equality, schoolroom, federal, successful, agency, tuskegee, educational, emancipation
     content words:    Civil War, Free African-Americans, Post-Civil War, Jim Crow, Lincoln University, Wilberforce University, Howard University, Spellman College, Tuskegee Institute, Booker T.

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Keys to Success
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     It was so important that many people considered it the key to success. People in the community provided room in their houses so that it could be accomplished. They searched for qualified candidates to do the job. They provided money out of their own pockets to buy materials.
 
2     What was this key to success that African-Americans considered so important in the years after the Civil War? What was it that they believed would allow them to advance into well-paying jobs and allow their children to be successful?
 
3     Education - to many former slaves, education was seen as the key to success! That is why they found ways to provide teachers and schools even though their means were very limited.
 
4     Some community schools for African-Americans had already begun even before the Civil War. Free African-Americans who had gained an education returned to their communities to teach others. Often, the community provided a place for the teacher to live with a family. The community or the teacher had to find a schoolroom and materials too. With emancipation, the demand for schools grew and grew.

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