Word: southern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mayo delivered a most interesting lecture last night in Sever Hall, on the progress of the public school system in the southern states before and after the war. He spoke in part as follows...
...wish to speak tonight more of education in the south as it has been built up by the South than of the work done by the North in promoting education in the Southern States...
...only established what we might call the steeple of the church without the church. He nevertheless woke up a band of thoughtful men in the South who believed in and later acted upon his ideas. The Civil War prostrated all educational plans completely and from 1860-1870 the Southern States were more lacking in schooling than any other people in the world within the last fifty years. When the war finally ended colleges and academies immediately sprung up, but nobody could afford to send their sons to these institutions; therefore a system of public schools became absolutely necessary...
...Mayo has won a national reputation through the good work he has done for education in the Southern States. During the past fifteen years he has been actively engaged in organizing schools and promoting the development of educational activity throughout the South. His lecture will set forth the conditions of education in the Southern States before and since the Civil War. No man is more competent than Dr. Mayo to speak on this subject. He is a ready and interesting speaker and his theme is of national interest...
Question: "Resolved, That the Southern States should take steps to bring about disfranchisement of the Negro through state constitutions...