Word: billings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: "Ought the Blair Educational Bill to pass...
...Glenn bill, which makes it a penal offence to teach in mixed schools of white and colored pupils, has brought the Atlanta University into prominence. In 1869, the Freedman's Burean established the university and soon after the State appropriated a large sum for its support. The outcry raised against the Glenn bill was so great that a modification was introduced which withheld all State appropriations, and by so doing a direct income of $8000 per year was taken from the university. The policy of the institution has not been abandoned on this account, and the subscriptions of private individuals...
Question: "Ought the Blair Educational Bill to pass...
...passage of this bill would fail to accomplish the object desired, because more than two-thirds of the illiterates in the South are too old to attend school.- Tenth Census...
...prospect of federal aid has already, in some places in the South, diminished local exertion in support of schools; and the result of the aid proposed by the Blair Bill would be to dwarf the energies of the States.- Saulsbury in Congressional Record, Vol. 17, part II., pp. 1945-1946; Senator Ingalls, abid...