The treachery and villainy of these rebels stands without parallel in the history of men." A Negro politician has left this account of a radical recitation in a Florida Negro school: After finishing the arithmetic lesson they must next go through the catechism: "Who is the 'Publican Government of the State of Florida ?" Answer: "Governor Starns." "Who made him Governor ?" Answer: "The colored people." "Who is trying to get him out of his seat ?" Answer: "The Democrats, Conover, and some white and black Liberal Republicans." "What should the colored people do with the men who is trying to get Governor Starns out of his seat ?" Answer: "They should kill them."....
This was done that the patrons, some of whom could not read, would be impressed by the expressions of their children, and would be ready to put any one to death who would come out into the country and say anything against Governor Starns.
The native white teachers soon dropped out of Negro schools, and those from the North met with the same social persecution as the white church workers.

The White League and Ku Klux Klan drove off obnoxious teachers, whipped some, burned Negro schoolhouses, and in various other ways manifested the reaction which was rousing the whites against Negro schools.
The several agencies working for Negro education gave some training to hundreds of thousands of blacks, but the whites asserted that, like the church work, it was based on a wrong spirit and resulted in evil as well as in good.

Free schools failed in reconstruction because of the dishonesty or incompetence of the authorities and because of the unsettled race question.

It was not until the turn of the century that the white schools were again as good as they had been before 1861.
After the reconstruction native whites as teachers of Negro schools were impossible in most places.

The hostile feelings of the whites resulted and still result in a limitation of Negro schools.