"[1] Some interpreted this law to include Negroes.
To overcome the objection to the partiality shown by school officials
the State passed another law in 1829. It excluded colored people from
the benefits of the new system, and returned them the amount accruing
from the school tax on their property.[2] Thereafter benevolent
societies and private associations maintained colored schools in
Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, and the southern counties of Ohio.[3]
But no help came from the cities and the State before 1849 when the
legislature passed a law authorizing the establishment of schools for
children of color at public expense.[4]
[Footnote 1: _Laws of Ohio_, vol. xxiii., pp. 37 _et seq_.]
[Footnote 2: Hickok, _The Negro in Ohio_, p. 85.]
[Footnote 3: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p. 374.]
[Footnote 4: _Laws of Ohio_, vol. liii., pp. 117-118.]
The Negroes of Cincinnati soon discovered that they had not won a
great victory. They proceeded at once to elect trustees, organized a
system, and employed teachers, relying on the money allotted them
by the law on the basis of a per capita division of the school fund
received by the Board of Education of Cincinnati.
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