The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by T. G. Steward
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buildings for colored schools (addition to building leased
19 Thomas), $1,000. c. The two schoolhouses in possession of the Board now used for colored children were assigned to same by the Old Public School Society. 2. The proportion of colored children to white children attending public schools is as 1 to 40. a. The sum expended on school buildings and sites of colored and white schools by the Board of Education is as 1 to 1,600. 3. a. Schoolhouse No. 1, for colored children, is an old building, erected in 1820 by the New York Manumission Society as a school for colored children, in Mulberry street, in a poor but decent locality. It has two departments, one male and one female; it consists of two stories only, and has two small recitation rooms on each floor, but as primary as well as grammar children attend each department, much difficulty and confusion arises from the want of class room for the respective studies. The building covers only part of the lot, and as it is, the best attended and among the best taught of the colored schools, a new and ample school building, erected in this place, would prove a great attraction, and could be amply filled by children. b. Schoolhouse No. 2, erected in Laurens street more than twenty years ago for colored children by the Public School Society, is in one of the lowest and filthiest |
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