DAVID N. PLANK is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. His previous publications on southern educational history have appeared in journals including History of Education Quarterly, American Journal of Education, and Journal of Urban History.RICK GINSBERG is Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. His historical work on urban education and school reform has appeared in journals including Issues in Education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Midwest Journal of Educational History.

• Introduction Why Study the South? The Origins of Urban Public School Systems Antebellum School Reform in the Port Cities of the Deep South Public Education in the New South: A School System for Atlanta, 1868-1879 The Origins of Urban Schools in Comparative Perspective The Politics of Southern School Reforms The Politics of Memphis School Reform, 1883-1927 Boss Behrman Reforms the Schools: The 1912 New Orleans School Reform Educational Reform and Organizational Change: Atlanta in the Progressive Era Progressive School Reform in Comparative Perspective Issues in Black School Politics Black School Politics in Atlanta, Georgia, 1869-1943 The Politics of Black Education in Memphis, Tennessee, 1868-1881 Two Worlds of Race? Urban Blacks and the Public Schools, North and South, 1865-1940 Bibliographic Essay Index

DAVID N. PLANK is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. His previous publications on southern educational history have appeared in journals including History of Education Quarterly, American Journal of Education, and Journal of Urban History.RICK GINSBERG is Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. His historical work on urban education and school reform has appeared in journals including Issues in Education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Midwest Journal of Educational History.

• Introduction Why Study the South? The Origins of Urban Public School Systems Antebellum School Reform in the Port Cities of the Deep South Public Education in the New South: A School System for Atlanta, 1868-1879 The Origins of Urban Schools in Comparative Perspective The Politics of Southern School Reforms The Politics of Memphis School Reform, 1883-1927 Boss Behrman Reforms the Schools: The 1912 New Orleans School Reform Educational Reform and Organizational Change: Atlanta in the Progressive Era Progressive School Reform in Comparative Perspective Issues in Black School Politics Black School Politics in Atlanta, Georgia, 1869-1943 The Politics of Black Education in Memphis, Tennessee, 1868-1881 Two Worlds of Race? Urban Blacks and the Public Schools, North and South, 1865-1940 Bibliographic Essay Index