The History of Education in the South is Black.

Dr. Ron Butchart, of the University of Georgia, has documented that of some 11,700 school teachers active in the South after the Civil War, 4000 were missionaries from the North and mostly white, 5000 were African Americans from the North, aka "carpet baggers," and then there were white Southerners whose main objective was to raise up compliant workers, by getting a hold of them early. It's with that background in mind that the interest in preserving the Harrington Graded School on St. Simons Island has to be understood.