The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-30
MISS pUrSAM,s FRIENDS MEET
And Protest Against Her Deposition q
Head OF nepn rtmept.

Head OF Department.
The friends Of Miss q. F. Putnam the vete-
ran colored teacher In Brooklyn who has been
suspended as Head OF Department OF Mixed
school No. S3 by the local committee. held a
mass meeting last night in the Fleet Street A.
NJ L. Church. at which they entered most
emphatic protest against the action Of the
committee.
IL mad been arranged that the meeting
should take place In the Bridge Street Church.
but tho trustees decided to keep apart from
inc controversy: and refused the use OF the
church ut the last moment. The Row. n. II
stitt. the pastor OF tho Fleet Street
Shurch. and It's trustees then threw the doors
OF their church wide open to Miss Putnams
friends and they nocked there In such mum
bsIs that when. the meeting opened at y
O'clock the seating carncity was exhausted.
women. The Rev. A. J. Henry OF the Nazarine
SsGngregstional Church presided. and around
or eFs seSr sf 70. men
nMiss Putnam herself was present and lis
remote corner Of the church, She is a delft
sate-lo9Sing little woman between so and 80
her color being almost white.
o dhha,Iman Henry said that the object Of the
humanity and not to stir up malice ' or str strife
He then gave = history OF Miss Fntnsm's case.
beginning with her appointment by the Board
mixed school in June. and then told how the
door OF her room had been looked against her
vacation and OF her final suspension few
days ago.
Misc PUTNAM had been a teacher in good
standing. Air. Henry said. for more than
and the treatment she had re%e,Sed should be- be-
belong to the race When they asked s why her
right rights were denled her they were told by this
local committee OF three that she was ineom-
cation, %e make no attack en- the Board Q, Edp
With the ocn om MIR aenr ,or our shs
t hsaf na Maxwell has declared her q the
here to protest against this outrage"
~, The Rev. Howard Bliss. assistant pa stor Of
most careful investigation OF the matter. and
was convinced that the principles involved in
the unjust treatment of Miss Putnam went to
boil to witness such a Discrimination made ON
George I. Wibbecan an said v'ti - D'00A''n'
1t Is just that teachers OF our race shall
have the honcred wreath OF merit and not the
crown or thorns OF persecution. Consolidated
schools are hollow moekery il the time has
not come when a colored woman can teach
Ign. solemnly protest against the narrow and
beseless caiumny Of Incompetence
OF the Board OF Education who had turned his
back on the interests Of his race
Mr.. Charles Taylor said
This good man who misrepresents the
black, people Of Brooklyn and every other
place has been an opponent OF this lady before
ne bOcame Nom Der OF the Board of Education
1t 10 possibly because he can't rule her bar
gain has been struck somewhere. This thing
would not have been done II Miss Putnam had
been white Instead Of colored Mr.. Simis says
Miss Putnam Is incompetent because he wants
some ono for her place This whole action 10
unjust unholy. and unchristiap."
Other speeches were on the same lines. and
the attempts OF Editor I. Thomas Fortune and
T; McCants Stewart were howled down.
Resolutions protesting against Miss Put
MANS suspension were passed. They will be
sent to the Board Of Education. The m Getting
broke up with cheers for Miss Putnam. who
seemed much affected BY the demon stration.