The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-21
Will NOT DOWN.
White and Negro Children in The Same
School Causes Tronble.
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Row Began by White Girl Refui;-
ing to Dance With Negro Boy,
and the Teacher Compelling Her
to Do So Against the Wishes of
| the Girls Father.
The New York World says because
two or three little girls at recess
gathered around 12-year-old Beat
rice Cha apmann and chanted "Oh,
for shame! You danced with 9. ne
gro!" the village Of Flushing is ex-$
citedly discussing the color question,
and movement was started Thurs
day to segregate the negro children
in the public schools There are
500 colored children among the Il
900 pupils in old Flushing.
In the folk dances and games In
school colored children have danced
with white children ever since dane
ing was taught in the schools, and
no parent ever thought of objacting
to a little colored boy dancing with
white girl or a white boy dane
ing with a colored girl until Wednes-
day, when some of her companions in
the Lincoln School poked fun at lit
tie Beatrice. She went home and
told her father, Charles e. Chapman.
He told his daughter to tell the
teacher that thereafter she was not
to dance with colored children. she
says the teacher answered: "Ch, it's
(too had about you. :. 34 a4
! "'I have nothing against the color
ed race and believe that it should
be educated" said Mr. Chapman,
"but think that the two races should
be educated separately for the good
Of both. Discussion of the reason
does no good to any one. I do not
blame the young teacher who told
my daughter to dance with l3-year.-.
old Charlie Davis. She was follow
ing the rules of the Board Of Edu-
cation, l suppose. But the board
should do something to remedy the
condition. Iswould suggest separate
class room for colored and white
children, especially after eight years
of age. did not give publicity to
the matter. A friend of mine, T.. y.
Burnett, heard ..of it and brought IT. It,
1up in the meeting Of the Flushing
Association. It caused a sensation
The Flushing Association appoint.
ed a committee consisting Of A. p.
sholes, William B. Parsons, Rich
mond Weed, John D. Vandewater ana. !
T. Jefferson Burnett to investigate
and take it up with the Board OF,
Education. ,:..s ii
Mr.. Sholes, the Chairman, vet.
eran Of the civil war, born IN Rhode
island, and who lived in the South
thirty years after the close OF the
war. said: "There is no doubt that,
it would be a good thing to send the.
FIVE or six hundred children to color.
ed public schools if it could be done
We have some very good colored
people here and the public schools
are as much theirs as they are ours
but it would be to their own good
to he educated in schools where there
would be no race feeling to detract
their attention from study. They
would have as good schools as the
white schildren.
"With our constantly growing pop
ulation it seems best to avoid race
feeling as much as possible, and this
would he d.ne, it seems t" me, oy
following the action of Jamaica and
establishing seperate schools.
The matter was discussed thor
oughly In must Flushing homes and
will be taken up in some OF the
women's clubs. Mrs. Beard, wife
of Dan Beard, the naturalist and au-
thor, said:
t'It is difficult problem. Years
ago, before Flushing became part
of Greater New York, the colored
children we're segregated, and this
same Lincoln School, which my hus-
band named, then in the old build
ing. was colored school and had
cclored teachers in some instances.
They were very good teachers, too.
"The thing to do is to seperate
the races and give good schools to-
each. Then there will not occur these
annoyances and both races Will be
benefited by their school life
Little Beatrice Chapman said: L
do not dislike Charlie Davis, the col
o-ed boy. I have nothing against
him. He was never rude to me or
to any one else that know OF. But
7 didn't want to be singled out by
the girls as a laughing stock be-
cause of 1t. At first told the teach
er that I had pain in my side and
didn't want to dance. thought that
a polite way to get out Of it. But
she made me. I think it would be
much nicer if white children danced
together and colored children togeth-
er."
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