[3]
[Footnote 1: Thorpe, _Federal and State Constitutions_, Const. of
Illinois.]
[Footnote 2: _Special Report of U.S. Com. of Ed._, 1871, p. 343.]
[Footnote 3: Starr and Curtis, _Annotated Statutes of Illinois_, ch.
105, p. 2261.]
In other States of the West and the North where few colored people
were found, the solution of the problem was easier. After 1848 Negroes
were legal voters in the school meetings of Michigan. Colored
children were enumerated with others to determine the basis for the
apportionment of the school funds, and were allowed to attend the
public schools. Wisconsin granted Negroes equal school privileges.[1]
After the adoption of a free constitution in 1857, Iowa "determined no
man's rights by the color of his skin." Wherever the word white had
served to restrict the privileges of persons of color it was stricken
out to make it possible for them not only to bear arms and to vote but
to attend public schools.[2]
[Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed._, 1871, p. 400.]
[Footnote 2: _Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of
Iowa_, 1857, p. 3 of the Constitution.]
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The following resolutions on the subject treated in this part
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