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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IAHENRY] Howe Academy-1857
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:32:22 -0500

Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Wednesday, July 8, 1857

ON A NEW TACK-NEGRO EQUALIZATION ADVOCATED- Our National friends, the
Editors of the Gazette, are out in yesterdays issue in favor of negro
equality, openly insisting upon the right of colored residents to send their
children to school with those of white men! They abuse Mr. Howe of Mt.
Pleasant in a violent manner because he refused admission into his school of
the children of a colored man named Davis!-This is one or two degrees
blacker than anything we have seen lately.

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