Charles Sumner: “Yet, while the fathers may sit together in those high places of honor…”

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Yet, while the fathers may sit together in those high places of honor and trust, the children are required by law to be educated apart.

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Massachusetts

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He highlights the contradiction of having adults of different races in positions of power while their children are segregated in education.

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Charles Sumner: “Yet, while the fathers may sit together in those high places of honor and trust, the children are required by law to be…”