Charles Sumner: “You may give him what is sometimes called an equivalent in another…”

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You may give him what is sometimes called an equivalent in another school; but this is not equality.

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Massachusetts

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Here, Sumner critiques the idea of providing equivalent education in separate schools as insufficient for true equality.

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Charles Sumner: “You may give him what is sometimes called an equivalent in another school; but this is not equality.”