Identifier: negrotrailblazer00beas (find matches)
Title: The Negro trail blazers of California (microform) : a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California ...
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Beasley, Delilah L. (Delilah Leontium), 1871-1934 Bancroft Library
Subjects: African Americans -- California Pioneers -- California California -- History
Publisher: Los Angeles : (Times Mirror printing and binding house)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rysville committee wascomposed of the following colored gentlemen from the educational convention: Eev.Thomas Eandolph, Eev. J. B. Handy, E. P. Duplex, Eobert Saline and others. Inspeaking of the Supreme Court decision of the San Francisco colored school, Eev.Thomas Eandolph, among other things, said: They worked with a oneness of purposeand a unity of action until the object was accomplished. The colored schools throughout the State were closed in 1875, and colored childrenwere supposed to attend the schools in the district in which they lived. Nevertheless,we find Mr. Wysinger making the fight in behalf of the education of his children inthe schools at Visalia. He was the proud father of six boys and two girls, and wasdetermined not to allow them to grow up without an education. He went before theschool board of that county and asked them to established a school for his children.After a struggle they opened a school for the education of colored children, and a Miss OF CALIFORNIA 183
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MME. ELLA BRADLEY-HUGHLEY (deceased)Vocal Instructor, Lyric Soprano. 184 THE NEGKO TRAIL BLAZERS

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