1078.]
[Footnote 2: _Niles Register_, vol. xlix., p. 40.]
[Footnote 3: _Notions of the Americans_, p. 26.]
[Footnote 4: Wright, _Views of Society and Manners in America_, p.
73.]
The successful strivings of the race in the District of Columbia
furnish us with striking examples of Negroes making educational
progress. When two white teachers, Henry Potter and Mrs. Haley,
invited black children to study with their white pupils, the colored
people gladly availed themselves of this opportunity.[1] Mrs. Maria
Billings, the first to establish a real school for Negroes in
Georgetown, soon discovered that she had their hearty support. She had
pupils from all parts of the District of Columbia, and from as far as
Bladensburg, Maryland. The tuition fee in some of these schools was
a little high, but many free blacks of the District of Columbia
were sufficiently well established to meet these demands. The rapid
progress made by the Bell and Browning families during this period
was of much encouragement to the ambitious colored people, who were
laboring to educate their children.[2]
[Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed._, 1871, pp.
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