lieutenant hector sears, the lieutenant subdistrict of stafford reported in march 1980 white people were opposed. schools sprang up. in january 1866, the school was supported by the society of friends in philadelphia. mary kate perry was the teacher in manassas by 1868 and had 32 students. in christiansburg in southwest virginia, a black woman who was freed before the war moved out of her own house in order to allow black people to have somewhere to go. a few of the better-known rights in the town supported the school , including mr. james taylor, who loaned them school benches and mr. thomas william, who alone tables and chairs. 1867, freedman rebuilding schools and the assistant superintendent noted to assist to bear -- to his superior that the freedman are anxious to have a teacher and children will come to make a large school and that respectively requested teacher be assigned to this place with us little delay as possible. yorktown, that the teachers monthly school report from january 1867 shows the school opened in november 1866, thanks to the assistance of the friends freedman ass