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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 54: public addresses concerning the freedmen in 1866, advocating education (search)
ng other things, said: Should the Government cease, through its agents, to make efforts for the education and upholding of the freedmen, private individuals would take up and still carry on the work, and finish the noble task which has gone so far in disenthralling the black race. Mr. Greeley sat down amid a tempest of applause. I had hardly resumed my desk in Washington after this trip when some delegates from the colored people, Frederick Douglass, Henry H. Garnett, Sella Martin, John M. Langston, and others who had come from various sections of the country to Washington to have a conference with each other and watch the interests of their race in legislation, desired an interview with me. The gentlemen sought the highest and best privileges and securities for their people, and laid stress upon their right to vote; but, judging by newspaper reports, they feared that I was opposed to them and that I was not in favor of securing to the blacks the right of suffrage. They came to m
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 55: first appropriation by congress for the bureau; the reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867; increase of educational work (search)
chers took scholars into their quarters, but not half of them could be accommodated. There was little doubt that some evildisposed persons and not accident had done the burning. It was a hopeful sign, hewever, that year in Mississippi that John M. Langston, school inspector, with his color against him, should be everywhere civilly treated. He had many good things to say of both the white people and the negroes of that State. The Society of Friends was supplying the teachers and doing good wo Jackson, the capital of the State. Tuition of fifty cents per month was required and the small tuition was educational in itself, favoring selfsupport. At Meridian, the school, for want of a structure, had to be held in the Methodist Church. Langston found six miles from Meridian a Southern white lady, who was conducting a colored pay school on her own account with 90 pupils. At Columbus, Miss., the white people had already given $1,000 to rebuild the schoolhouse which had been destroyed.
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
Knapp, Hannah, 1, 10. Knapp, Rufus, I, 10. Kniffin, G. C., I, 506. Knipe, Joseph F., I, 618. Knox, Mr., I, 327. Kolb's Farm, Battle of, I, 571-588. Koop, Mr. and Mrs., II, 561. Krsyzanowski, Wladimir, I, 364, 373, 429, 430. Kuhn, John H., II, 14. Ku-Klux-Klan, II, 374-389. Kuropatkin, Alexi N., II, 539. Ladd & Tilton, II, 468. Laidley, Theo. T. S., I, 63. Lakeman, Moses, I, 136. Lambert, Lewis J., II, 300, 301. Lampley, Harris D., II, 10. Langston, John M., II, 317, 841. Lansing, Mr., I, 65, 66. Lansing, Mrs., I, 65. Lathrop, D. B., I, 218. Law, E. M., I, 421. Lawrence, Arthur, II, 531. Lawton, A. R., I, 290. Lawton, H. W., II, 573. Lazelle, Henry M., I, 49. Lee, C. C., I, 97. Lee, Fitzhugh, I, 102, 370. Lee, Mr., I, 503. Lee, Robert E., I, 54, 96, 102, 203, 259-261, 265, 272, 275, 278, 286, 290, 304, 305, 308, 312, 317, 318, 321, 330, 331, 351, 352, 357, 365-369, 376, 380-383, 385, 387, 388, 392, 395,