The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-10
AMALGAMATION In THE
SCHOOLS.
Excitement in the Rampant Girls
School.
Forcing Authorization and Social
Equality with a Vengeance.
How Long will the People Suffer
Themselves to be Trified
With?

The public school problem in this city and
State, has come to be one which can no
longer be ignored by the people interested in
the welfare of the community aud the advance
ment of education Under the present vicious
and partisan management the schools tf this
great city have dsteriorated, until they have
become SO VIGOROUSLY bad as to be regarded
with humiliation and shame by everybody
who remembers what they once we're, and who
knows what they ought to be. The city School
Beard has for years been under the
control of lot of ignorant and vicious ne
groes, whose highest aspiration is TO force
yourg ladies to sit by the side of negro girls
in the schools, and whose boast it is to VIC
lently test the already strained patience of
this goated ana insnlted people.
They have hesitatod at nothing, but boldly
de FAINT OF the wishes OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of ,hs community, have persistently forced
the race issue in the schools, until the whites
must, in self-de.ense, and in deferss Of their
own and their children's rights, accept the
fact and apply the remedy
of the S ate and City Boards, the teachers in
some of the schools are pushing the amalga-
nation matter in way that has led to trouble
already, aud mus. lead to more.
In the Rampant street girls school there has
been made such an attempt to force social
equality, SO unnecessarily harsh and inexcus-
ABLE an effort to make the young ladies accept
as their social equals negro girls, that
number of the best young ladies
have very properly Withdrawn from the
school. 1t appears there are quite a number
of negro girls in the school, some seventeen
having been placed in the Principals room
alone. In this room negro girl was seated
in very close proximity to young lady. who
her teacher, who would, however, make no
change, and the young lady finally withdrew,
as a number had done before her.
The negro girl referred to was very
dark, with short, kinky hair. and
all the disagreeable attributes of the Afri-
can. Another of the negro girls in the same
70 ON is afflicted with loathsome sores, but
she is nevertheless permitted to remain, and
the white girls are necessarily forced to close
association with her.
Not content with compelling an association
SO obnoxious, one of the young ladies was
commanded by her teacher to take the hand
of negro girl and to form in the usual pro-
cession of school girls when the school is out
She was not only expected to take this
negro girls hand in the school, but to march
out into the street hand in hand with her.
or course the young lady Indignantly refused
to give her hand to person from whose asso-
citation she instinctively shranB, and upon the
order being insisted upon she withdrew from
the school, as should every one of her school,
mates with her.
Thus crops out the intention of the present
Board Of School Directors" amalgamation,
Attenuation or runa!io1," is their motto,
and they iusolently defy the people whose
money supports the Schools but who are ex-
Guided from any voice in their management
If the people-the white people of New Or
leans-stand this thing much longer, they will
stand anything.
If they permit their children-their daugh-
ters-to be driven from the public schools be-
cause they will not lovingly clasp hands with
negro girls and promenade with them at the
command of teachers, then they will deserve
whatever comes
The facts as related above were obtained
from three young ladies who were compelled
to leave the shool, whose names we have, and
whose action everybody must not only appr eve
but applaud.
Every young lady in every school in this
city should resent this affront to the young
ladies of the Rampant street school. Every
father and brother in the community should
resent it and see that it bs not possible in the
future. Away with all such schools!
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