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Charles Sumner: “Insist that the common-school, where the child is prepared for the duties of manhood, shall know no discrimination…”

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Insist that the common-school, where the child is prepared for the duties of manhood, shall know no discrimination unknown to the Constitution.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner advocates for non-discriminatory education as a fundamental right.

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