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Title	Union School Notice to Dismiss African American Students
Subject	African American Ohioans Civil Liberties Education Military Ohio Segregation
Place	Massillon (Ohio) Stark County (Ohio)
Description	This document, written during the Civil War, orders Thomas Harvey, principal of Union School, to dismiss all African American children from the school. According to the notice, the board of education decided that tax monies should be reserved to educate African American children in a separate school. The one-page document measures 8.5" x 12.5" (21.6 x 31.75 cm). Union School opened in October of 1848 and was the beginning of the free public school system in Massillon. It was built on the lot set aside "for literary purposes" in 1832. This document is part of the Rotch-Wales Collection, which comprises several thousand items, including Quaker and abolitionist materials, household remedies and recipes, weather reports and machinery plans, and personal letters of Thomas and Charity Rotch and their family. It contains personal and business correspondence, diaries, documents, accounts, ledgers, and daybooks. A large portion of the collection consists of the personal and business correspondence, documents, and business papers of Arvine Wales I (1785-1854), who accompanied Rotch from Hartford to Ohio in 1811, worked for him, and carried on Rotch's business interests after his death. The papers of his son, Arvine C. Wales (1827-1882), a lawyer and civic leader in Massillon, are also part of the collection.
Creator	Union School Board of Education
Date of Original	November 17, 1862
Collection	Rotch-Wales Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) G-18-23 Miscellaneous papers and records
Submitting Institution	Massillon Public Library
Type	Text
Full Text	[Page 1] [corresponds to first page of Union School notice (marked p. 4)] 4 On the 17th day of November AD 1862 a majority of the Board of Edu- cation, ordered T.W. Harvey Princip al of the School, to dismiss all the colored children, this order was given on the belief of its being for the best interests of the School under the circumstances existing at the time, [under...time underlined] and was, as we beleived, in accordance with exis ting statutes, and the wishes of a large majority of our people, but it was expressly stipulated, and reser ved for the action of the people of this district, that the money hereafter rece - ived from the enumeration of Colerd Youth in the district, and from taxes on real and personal property of that class within the district, should be reserved for the use & purposes of educating said Colored children, in case a seperate School should be provided for them in the district or township~ and in the event the action of the Board is Sanctioned, we recommend that you pass a Resolution to that affect, & also for the setting apart, the funds we have refered to.
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om225_1044350_216
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