New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-28
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIREUTORs.


children to attend that school. The com- !
mittee consisted Of Messrs. George Cronan,
Marion A. Baker, and Mr.. .Sambola.
Mr.. Thieneman was dissatisfied with the |
committees report because they had failed |
to find the rumors correct, and thought the
report perfect failure. He asserted that
the second district delegation had shirked
their duties and winked at the fact that col
ored children had been received in schools
N that section of the city.
During the meeting Mr.. Baker asserted
that q certain school in the third district
contained children of descendants Of African
parentage.
Mr.. Sambola thought the committee had
made a very competent report, and was
entirely opposed to expelling any colored
children from the schools, but favored such
action as transferring them to schools
established for them.
MT. Cronan stated that all the cases
under consideration, except six, had given
proof that they were white. AS to the six
that remain unsettled, he was unwilling to
make an inquisitor of himself to inquire
into the status of the parents, or go into
their dwellings and ask of them if they are
white or colored, The query was too deli
cate to be handled ordinarily. Suppose a
parent refuse to answer, how could he
force them to reply Quite ridiculous.
Among the six parties who refuse to make
response to the interrogatories there has
been no iota of proof to show that the
children are not of white parentage.
The subject was recommitted to the COM
mittee, who are empowered to act finally.
The following is the report:
New OBLEANs, May 26 lS6S.
To the President and Members of the Board of
School Directors
GENTLEMEN-The special committee of
this Board consisting of the members of the
second district, do respectfully report as
follows:
That on Friday May %, 1868, your com.
mittee was notified to meet at II N. George
Cronan, N. A. Baker were present; G. W.
Collens, Louis Prados, A. Sambola, and J.
Benit absent.
The members of the committee present
proceeded to examine the charges made by
Justin FremauE, ESQ, in relation to the
admittance of colored children to the Bayou
Road school. The Superintendent placed
! before the committee a copy of his commu-
nication TO Mrs. Bigot which reads as fol-
lows:
NEW ORLEANS, May Z, 1865.
Madame S Bisot, Principal Bayou Road School;
Please to inform me if there are any chill.
dren known or generally reported to be col.
ored who are now attending your school.
| If yes, how many, when, and by what au'
thOrity admitted.
Respectfully,
w. o. ROGERS, Superintendent,
In answer the principal transmitted the
following reply to the Superintendent;
MIR. W. o Rogers
! SIR-wheu those children were admitted
! it was never to nay knowledge that they
were colored; but few days after their ad'
mission some of our pupils living in their
neighborhood would report that they were
| not white.
There may be others unknown to Us.
Respectfully,
S. BIGoT, Principal.
May :, 1868.
The number on the list is twenty.eight
the names of whom your. committee will not
give, as they deem it unnecessary.
On the tweRty-second instant the commit
tee visited the school and found that the
pupils mentioned as doubtful were Of very
fair complexion, excepting two, one OF
whom produced sufficient evidence to estab
/ lish her status as white.
Your committee passed the following res
olution and Instructions
RpsoIUed That the Superintendent be in
structed to require from the PARENTS ot salC
| children two days after notice docu
| mentarv evidence or testimony OF sworI
witnesses establishing their status in poin
of color.
Mr., Rogers will please have notices served
upon the parents of the children IN thI
Bayou Road school, charged with belnG
colored, through the principal on MONDAY
evening next at nine o'clock, the notices tC
i be delivered sealed to the pupils, who will
] 20 irstr71ctnd to deliver them to thell
parents at once. The notices should con
tain instructions to the parents to produce
the evidence required as per above resolu
tion by two o'clock P. NJ, the tWenty'slxtt
instant, at the Office Of the superintendent
39 Burgundy street. In the event OF thu
evidence not being forthcoming, or SOM
tangible reasons advanced by the parent o.
narPnts in person, they should be notified
that the said pupils will be dismissed by th
Board.
intendent- caused sufficient number o
comics of the following communication t
be made and transmitted to the principal o
the BAYOU RoSd school for distribution
among the pupils of the above named schoo
who were classed as doubtful, or OF miXe'
race:
New Orleans, May 2s 1868.
Complaints have been made that certail
pupils are attending the Bayou Road schoO
In contravention TOT the rules of the Boar
of School Directors, said pupils being o
mixed race, and this school having beel
designated as exclusively for white cha
dren. The pupil - is named as belong
ing to this class.
have been Instructed by the directors o
the second district to request that you vii
send to the superintendent's office, 80 Bul
gundy street, before 2 P. M. of Tuesday
tWenty.sixth instant, such documentar
, evidence or testimony of sworn wltnesse
as will serve to establish the status in poln
of color of said pupil.
| have been further instructed by IN
directors of the second district to say tina
in the absence of such testimony the sal
! pupil will be dismissed from the Bayo
. Road school by the Board Of Directors.
am, very respectfully,
w. o. ROGERS, Superintendent.
The Superintendent also notified Mr.. J
: Fremaux to produce any evidence which h
q possessed, in order to sustain the charge
! made by him against the Bayou Road school
i to which he replied in writing as PEI docu
! meat marked A., dated May 26, 1858.
| On Tuesday, May 70, 1868, the commute
3 was again notified by the chairman to NEE
I at 2 o'clock p. NJ, at the Office OF the Super
intendent TO examine the documentary evl
= dence produced by the parents Of the pupil
of the bayou Road school, and also to NEE
# the parents in person, several Of whom PR
sented themselves at the appointed houl
, and furnished satisfactory evidence to Ii
committee, as will more fully appear b
reference to document. marked B. r.
Twelve pupils have left school since th
i investigation commenced, nine have tu
/, nished satisfactory evidence Of being whit
4. six have neglected to furnish any eyidenc
: ana two positively refuse to furnish On
y evidence whatever, as viii more fully appei
. by reference to document marked G.
q Your committee, after having fully exaI
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