The Omaha guide., 1934-04-07
Columbian Educational AS.
ISOLATION
Washington, D.. c.
CLEVELAND, OHIO AT THE CON,
VENTION OF THE DEPART
MENT OF SUPERINTEND-
ENCE FEBRUARY %, 1884

The Executive Committee,
Department of superintendent,
National Educational Association.
Greeting:
On behalf of the Columbian Educa-
tional Association composed of Off
GERS and teachers Of Divisions 1913
of the Public Schools of the District
of Columbia we beg the high privi-
lege and honor of the moral support
of your committee in the furthcrance
of our project in Character-Training
and Good-C Citizenship Training. The
project consists of arranging for the
children in our schools voluntarily to
contribute one cent each toward i'm
proving and identifying the grounds
Of the Memorial Home of Frederick
Douglass in Washington, D. c.
This home has been made a perm
anent shrine, and is held in trust by
the. Douglass Memorial Association
The house is on a high hill and is in
an excellent state of preservation. 1t
is we'll kept by a paid caretaker and
contains micro relics of historical
interest. The National Education AS
ISOLATION very graciously included a
trim to the Douglass Memorial Home
in their r of pilgrimages dur
ing their convention in 1924. And we
hope they will see fit to include it in
their program next summer.
However, the grounds surrounding
the house, which cover about two
city blocks on account Of insufficient
funds, are sadly in need Of replace
ment. And we feel that nothing could
furnish a better lesson in civic duty
and in economic self-help than for
the children in our schools to contri-
butte n cent each toward renovating
and identifying these grounds. The
National Association Of Teachers in
Colored Schools endorsed the sugges-
ton by q resolution in their annual
convention in Louisville last summer.
We are inspired in this project by
the worthy example Of the children
Of Cleveland who presented to the
City Of Cleveland the magnificent
statue Of Lincoln, which stands in
front of the Board OF Education
Building. We are inspired also by the
precedents Of Wakefield, the birth
place Of George Washington; Aonti-
cello. the home Of Thomas Jefferson,
and the U. s. Battleship Constitution.
We ask that your honorable com
mittee lend its moral support to the
extent of writing a brief letter 70
these Superintendents having coaored
children in their schools notifying
them Of this project, in the hope that
they might see fit to notify their
teachers.
The plan is a very simple one. The
subscriptions by the children must
be purely voluntary. They must be
to one day only, namely, Tu-
April 5, 1884. They must be
to only one cent from each
child. And the amount collected must
be sent on the following day, April
1884 ~(preferably by check or mon
ey order) to Mr.. w. W. Sanders, Ex-
enthusiastically of the National
Association Of Teachers IN Colored
Schools Headquarters in the Henry
School, Washington, d. c.
This should be accompanied by the
name Of the head Of the school (col
Iege, institution or public schools;
The name Of the class teacher, and the
names of the students contributing
cent each. These will be bound
and placed in the Douglass Home.
We feel that the life Of Douglass
rom slavery to an undisputed place
Y American history will furnish an
Incentive to- children To %persevare and