Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1890-01-11
The Daily Republican
SATURDAY JANUARY 1880.


Colored schools and Taxes. q
The complaint that A. Worthlngton
Brinkley ma es that colored people
have NO voice In the education oil their I
childreA 10 certainly correct, but that
can hardly be attributed as the cause
why colored girls do not graduate
from the branch OF the high school
provided for them. That it has a
subtle and depressing effect upon the
general education Of the colOred
peoole there eau be no doubt. The
charter Of the Board Of Education 10
this day contains the word white in
ii that precludes any cOlored voter, no
matter how worthy or respectable he
may be, from voting al the school
elections tor members of the Board OF
Education Of their own choice. VI i
course this ID unconstitutional, and 4.
would be ruled Out OF court ss pre- /
postcrous and absurd If il was taken /
there, but there seems TO be nobody
interested enough In this matter
80 take a case into the courts, AMI so
the obnoxious measure is retained in
The charter twenty years and more
after the constitution Of the United
States had stricken down all barriers
and given TO all citizens The same equal
rights and immunites 1t is some.
what strang that some colorud voter OF
Wilmington has not long ere this prof
tered his vote at the school election,
where of course II would have been
refused and hen have taken his case
Into the courts snd have he'd this color
ID St - rtnl a tho III ar Mt
the board. But this is not all the dis
examinations sgains, the colored people
OF this city. They do not even get the
benefit Of the taxes they do pay for
slucstlonal purposes in this city, but
1t goes TO support coiored schools out
Ilde the city.
The exception to this is where col
pred taxpayers pay the same city ant
tch0ol taxes on property that white
taxpayers pay
A State law levies a tax Of sixty
renls on every colored voter and col
nred property owners in tie city have
This sixty cents head TO Jay besidei
their property school AK, 80 that il vi.
be seen that the colored property Uw mel
has two school taxes 10 pay. This is a
species OF discrimination that creates
opposition snd Indifference to The Co
pred system OF education. But u,
= worst specie oi d'se'im'nhUep aEHlns
the culoTed school Is stem is Tie nsn e
In which the taxes iof the support Q
those schools are levied aud collected
As already stated tax o. sky cent
is levied upon every col0rci man as
seessed upon the duplicates anu hi
tax is put on the same bin with III
TAX he owes lie county a VIM
labor,r IS assessed pol oil so an
acoiored laooref me same Inc Ia
tate al 90 cents on me !oo makes Ii
county TAX OF eACh stoJ. ms is a
the white leo9rsF has 10 f-y, auu III
u all the coiofeo IaooreF shoula nav
10 pay. Bul 10 the colof'A tsta : Ia
Is lacked TINS ~ cents sefo'i Ia
"hch IS no pa!I OF lo"h'y taS IN
the colored man plys u TIE lax CO
fctofs Sl'N9'
RUt this ia not the worst q it G,
orei men pay ihls tax bn, f8eir eli
dren do not gt Tue benyri OF 1t.
goes Tor The education OF eHurei eA
dren ontz.d..ei the CIV, IT'S. h6i
ever. il only Objectionable A. A ral
discrimination aga.p.J 90 cred poop
Their schools 10 ths CITY nave /
sane In neia EE1a,It wa
aehesls
TINS 80 ce.ti tax Il. ine education