The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
There is no law, and there will be no law in Georgia against
the education of our brother in black, either in the primary
or intermediate department—either in the high schools or
colleges. There is a law against the co-education of the races,
and if there were no law to prohibit, our civilization would
prevent. The constitution of the State prevents co-education
of races. The Negroes do not want it. The whites will not have
it. It is the fixed policy of the State to do equal and exact
justice to the colored man. The people of Georgia will regulate
their own domestic affairs without being influenced by outside
misrepresentation, or deterred by foolish intimidation. Our
Legislature will enact such additional laws in reference to
the education of the colored and white races separately as it
may deem most conducive to the welfare of each, and secure
the enforcement of the same without any regard to the silly
ravings or foolish threats of men who know nothing about the
educational status of the Negro in Georgia, and the relations
that exist between the whites and blacks. Co-education of
the whites and blacks in the South is an impossibility, and
the reasons are so apparent that it is unnecessary either to
present or discuss them any further.
THE SAVANNAH (GA.) MORNING NEWS.
The Glenn Bill is a wise measure for several reasons, but
mainly because it will save the public school system from
destruction. In the preservation of that system both races
are interested. It can only be preserved by keeping the races
separate in the schools. If the blacks were to demand mixed
schools and were to attempt to secure them through the ballot
box, the whites would at once oppose appropriations for
schools, and the common school system would be ruined. There
are two colored institutions in Atlanta in which white children
are now taught. Co-education in these two schools will soon be
made the excuse for mixed common schools. The agitation will
be productive of much bad feeling and cannot help injuring the
common schools by arousing public sentiment against them. The
sentiment of the State is clearly against mixing the races in
any way, and the Glenn Bill is in harmony with that sentiment.
THE MACON (GA.) TELEGRAPH.
The Glenn Bill, now pending in the Georgia Legislature, is
intended to carry out a clause of the State constitution.
That the people of the State indorse this clause is shown in
the large vote by which the constitution was adopted nearly
a decade since. The framers of that instrument declared that
there should be no mixed schools in Georgia.
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