Union School Petition against admission of African American children, November 22, 1848

              Union School   G-18-13   Miscellaneous papers and records
            
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                             To the Directors of the Union School
                   of the Town of Massillon
                
                             We the undersigned household
                   ers of the Town of Massillon Stark Place
                   and State of Ohio Under the Statute passed
                   Feb.24 1848  Made and provided for                   
                  the admission of Colord children into the
                  common Schools, set apart for white
                  children into the common schools
                  which reads as follows.  That in every
                  City incorporated  Town or Village or
                  Seat of Justice containing a less number than twenty
                  black or colord children desirous of
                  attending school.  It shall be the duty
                  of the School directory of any School
                  district organised for the education
                  of  white children to admit such black
                  or colord children upon the same terms, and
                  they shall be entitled to benefit, as 
                  they could be if they were white
                  children, under the acts to which this
                  is an amendment  Provided  no 
                  objection be filed with the directory
                  signed by any person having a child
                  in such school or by any aged voter
                  of such district"    Would respectfully
                  present to the said directory as requested
                  by the above Statute(in writing) our objec
                  tion to the admission of Colord children
                  into said Union School and to the full
                  benefit  there of or any part of the sum
                  And we further urge as a right given
                  by sd Statute that the said Colord