Agricultural engineers work in research and development, production, sales, or management. Preparation Agricultural Engineering graduates may improve crop production system, design animal facilities, analyze food production systems, or test machinery.
As an act of defiance an underground school was conducted in the Kovno Ghetto when such education was banned in 1942. A remarkable photo of one of the classes of that school features in the US Holocaust publication, The Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto.
Reconstruction and Black Education. Before the Civil War, most southern states made it illegal to educate slaves, but many enslaved people did learn to read and write. During the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, the number of schools and the literacy rate for African Americans increased dramatically.