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It is easy to see that the exclusion of colored children from the Public Schools is a constant inconvenience to them and their parents, which white children and white parents are not obliged to bear.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner discusses the negative impact of excluding colored children from public schools on their families.

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