{"id":961,"date":"2005-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=961"},"modified":"2014-09-19T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T20:32:07","slug":"emu-historian-to-speak-on-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/emu-historian-to-speak-on-educator\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU Historian to Speak on Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo right\" style=\"width: 150px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/news\/images\/samuelhorst.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel L. Horst\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nSamuel L. Horst<\/div>\n<p>Samuel L. Horst, professor emeritus of history, has been invited to speak on his research of a white educator who taught blacks in Lynchburg, Va., following the Civil War as part of the John D. Owen, Jr. Lynchburg History Series.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Horst will address the topic, &#8220;Learning How: The Odyssey of a Lynchburg Freedmen Educator,&#8221; at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12 at the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg. Horst, who taught at EMU for 28 years until his retirement in 1984, wrote &#8220;The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts: The Diary of Jacob E. Yoder,&#8221; published in 1997 by the Virginia State Library.<\/p>\n<p>Horst edited the diaries of Jacob Eschbach Yoder, an idealistic young Mennonite from the Boyertown, Pa., area who came to Virginia after the Civil War to help educate freed slaves.<\/p>\n<p>Yoder taught freedmen in Lynchburg in 1866 and from 1868 to 1871 supervised black schools over a six-county region as well as in Lynchburg. From 1871 until his death in 1905 he taught blacks in the newly-opened public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Lynchburg&#8217;s black population had mushroomed after the war as ex-slaves moved in to take advantage of government rations from the Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau and to capitalize on their new freedom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo right\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/news\/images\/freedmenlynchburg.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob E. Yoder at a Freedman's Bureau School in Lynchburg, circa 1876-77.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\nJacob E. Yoder (back row, at right) at a Freedman&#8217;s Bureau School in Lynchburg, circa 1876-77.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Yoder eventually became generally well-accepted by both blacks and whites in Lynchburg because of his low-key style and his patient efforts,&#8221; Horst noted.<\/p>\n<p>Horst, who earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia, is also the author of &#8220;Conscience in Crisis: Mennonites and Other Peace Churches, 1739-1789 (Herald Press, 1979), &#8220;Mennonites in the Confederacy: A Study in Civil War Pacifism (1967), &#8220;Education for Manhood: Education of Blacks in Virginia During the Civil War&#8221; (University Press of America, 1987) and most recently researched and co-authored with Edsel Burdge, Jr., a former student of Horsts&#8217;, &#8220;The Mennonites of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and Washington County, Maryland, 1730-1970&#8221; (Herald Press, 2004).<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is open to the public free of charge. For more information, call 846-0501.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel L. Horst Samuel L. 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