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Vaughn, William Preston was born on May 28, 1933 in East Chicago, Indiana, United States. Son of James Carl and Georgiana (Preston) Vaughn.
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Schools for All provides the first in-depth study of black education in Southern public schools and universities during the twelve-year Reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. In the antebellum South, the teaching of African Americans was sporadic and usually in contravention to state laws. During the war, Northern religious and philanthropic organizations initiated efforts to educate slaves. The army, and later the Freedmen's Bureau, became actively involved in freed-men's education. By 1870, however, a shortage of funds for the work forced the bureau to cease its work, at which time the states took over control of the African American schools. In an extensive study of records from the period, William Preston Vaughn traces the development―the successes as well as the failures―of the early attempts of the states to promote education for African Americans and in some instances to establish integration. While public schools in the South were not an innovation of Reconstruction, their revitalization and provision to both races were among the most important achievements of the period, despite the pressure from whites in most areas which forced the establishment of segregated education. Despite the ultimate failure to establish an integrated public school system anywhere in the South, many positive achievements were attained. Although the idealism of the political Reconstructionists fell short of its immediate goals in the realm of public education, precedents were established for integrated schools, and the constitutional revisions achieved through the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments laid the groundwork for subsequent successful assaults on segregated education.
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Here, for the first time in more than eighty years, is a detailed study of political Antimasonry on the national, state, and local levels, based on a survey of existing sources. The Antimasonic party, whose avowed goal was the destruction of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies, was the first influential third party in the United States and introduced the device of the national presidential nominating convention in 1831. Vaughn focuses on the celebrated "Morgan Affair" of 1826, the alleged murder of a former Mason who exposed the fraternity's secrets. Thurlow Weed quickly transformed the crusading spirit aroused by this incident into an anti-Jackson party in New York. From New York, the party soon spread through the Northeast. To achieve success, the Antimasons in most states had to form alliances with the major parties, thus becoming the "flexible minority." After William Wirt's defeat by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1832, the party waned. Where it had been strong, Antimasonry became a reform-minded, anti-Clay faction of the new Whig party and helped to secure the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison in 1836 and 1840. Vaughn concludes that although in many ways the Antimasonic Crusade was finally beneficial to the Masons, it was not until the 1850s that the fraternity regained its strength and influence.
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Vaughn, William Preston was born on May 28, 1933 in East Chicago, Indiana, United States. Son of James Carl and Georgiana (Preston) Vaughn.
Bachelor of Arts Missouri, Columbia, 1955. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1961.
Instructor in history, University of Southern California, 1961-1962; assistant professor of history, U. N. Texas, Denton, 1962-1965; associate professor, U. N. Texas, Denton, 1965-1969; professor, U. N. Texas, Denton, 1969-1991. Instructor Texas Project, Malaysia, 1986, 88.
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With artillery United States Army, 1956-1957. Member Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Southern History Association (life), Historians Early American Republic, Masons, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta (manuscript competition winner 1972), Phi Delta Kappa.
Married Virginia Lee Meyer, June 10, 1961 (deceased 2007). 1 child, Rhonda Louise Horton.