Book/Printed Material Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, 1807-1905,
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Image 1 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 2 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... LC ZSOZ U65M66- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 3 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 4 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 5 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 6 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 7 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 8 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... EDUCATION FOR THE COLORED RACE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 18071905 BY Winfield S Montgomery Asst Supt FART OF THE REFORT OF THE BOARD OF EDU CATION TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 9 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 10 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... HISTORICAL SKETCH 3 fff EDUCATION FOR THE COLORED RACE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 18071905 BY Winfiedd S Montgomery Asst Sttbt PART OF THIS REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDU CATION TO...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 11 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 12 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 4 1 M HISTORICAL SKETCH OF EDUCATION FOR THE COLORED RACE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 18071905 By Winfiuid S Montgomery Assistant Superintendent Standing upon the threshold of the twentieth century we...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 13 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... It is not the purpose at the present time to attempt to set forth in detail the history of the early heroic struggles among the colored race here to give their children...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 14 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... A historical sketch of educational efforts among the colored race in the District of Columbia may be naturally and con veniently divided into three periods The first covering the time from 1807...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 15 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 6 and could catch but little of the spirit of learning and progress from such an atmosphere The slimy trails of the twin pythons of slavery and caste were over all Imagination...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 16 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... free people of color were extra law tolerated rather than having any valid claim to inhabitancy and it therefore required calm deliberation and careful judgment to keep from making a faux pas...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 17 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 8 clusively that adequacy of accommod ation kept pace with growth of population The refusal of the corporations to levy taxes on general property for schools for the white children indicates the...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 18 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... By far the ablest educator among the people at this time was John W Prout the successor of Mr Smothers as head of the H Street school in 1825 During his incumbency...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 19 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 10 out conspicuous in the annals of learning and general uplift among the colored race here The John F Cook School one of the oldest and most important buildings in the District...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 20 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... instructors represented the best culture and training of the age and were in no sense mere hirelings but large hearted liberal minded The curricula were limited narrow containing a few things which...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 21 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... so generally and long in education They were principally em ployed as domestic servants in the families of the higher class who have ever been considerate and liberal The community or circles...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 22 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... bloody crisis in which African slavery in America was to perish From the forum of words to the forum of swords the issue was carried The tramp of the northern legions was...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 23 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 14 Next we find the work continued in Union Bethel Church M street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets N W At this period the leading and inspiring spirit was Dr Lorenzo D...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 24 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... ployed by this society was Miss Sarah E Daffin who continued her services to the cause of education in the free public schools long after the field had been surrendered by the...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 25 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 16 This association was fortunate in having as manager on the ground Rev J W Alvord who eventually became general superintendent of the Freedmans Bureau here and throughout the South wherever its...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 26 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... the old Chamberlain School just across Rock Creek in George town was erected out of materials abandoned by the war author ities Two northern teachers Misses Chamberlain here labored during many years...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 27 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 18 structure just described The genius of intellectual develop ment seems to dwell within this building inasmuch as today it is the home of the Bethel Historical and Literary Association founded years...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 28 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... of ignorance was difficult to reach It was like Mrs Parting tons attempt to keep back the Atlantic Ocean with her broom Copious streams of revenue flowed from the North whose con...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 29 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 20 The New England Freedmens Aid Society has the rare dis tinction and honor of taking charge of the first colored public school ever opened in the District of Columbia and at...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 30 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... of the colored schools The honorable Commissioners and the Board of Education have commended and commemorated his life and services by naming the Henry P Montgomery school for him From 1862 to...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 31 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... credited as purchase money What an inspiring fact that here with the ink scarcely dry on the decree which transformed them from chattelhood to manhood the idea of ownership should be aroused...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 32 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... the people whose lives and deeds caused the coinage of the epithets Connecticut as if in repentance and atonement for the out rage perpertrated upon Miss Prudence Crandall a third of a...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 33 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 24 of centuries in this unschooled uncivilized mass The efforts put forth prepared this mass for rapid assimilation into the citi zenship of the community and country The spirit of sacrifice the...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 34 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... of Columbia grounds for congratulation and pride upon the prog gress gained and achievements made in this the greatest interest within its borders In the beginning of this period the problem to...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 35 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... ill 4F 26 This enactment following so soon on the District emancipa tion which occurred in the month of April 1862 showed that the Government had considered the necessity of educating the...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 36 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... Within the limits of the two cities in the fall of 1867 were 9295 children between the ages of 6 and 17 of whom only 2523 less than onethird were in school...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 37 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... s 28 Through weight of years she voluntarily withdrew in 1901 fol lowed by the benedictions of the entire body of teachers who had presented her with a purse of over seven...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 38 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... present board of education took control of educational affairs How well how efficiently he administered the important trust let the growth of the schools answer let the able reports which constitute the...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Image 39 of Historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, ... 30 county schools as to equalize the work of this supervisory body The real start for county schools was the act passed by Congrees June 1864 An attempt had been made for...- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Montgomery, Winfield S.
- Date: 1907-01-01
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- Date: 1907-01-01