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Example sentences for "colored school"

  • Prejudice was so great against the presence of a Colored school in a community of white people, that a school, established by a very worthy white lady, was mobbed and then legislated out of existence.

  • Mrs. George Ford, a white teacher, a native of Virginia, kept a Colored school in a brick house still standing on New Jersey Avenue, between K and L streets.

  • John Thomas Johnson, a teacher of the District of Columbia, moved to Pittsburgh in 1838 and became an instructor in a colored school of that city.

  • Livingston, an ordained clergyman of the Episcopal Church, had then a colored school of eighty pupils in the African Church at the corner of Saratoga and Ninth Streets.

  • About the same time the African Episcopalians founded a colored school at their church.

  • In 1773 Newport had a colored school, maintained by a society of benevolent clergymen of the Church of England, with a handsome fund for a mistress to teach thirty children reading and writing.

  • Before I concluded to do so, however, the President of the college showed me a letter asking him to recommend some one for a colored school in one of the Northern States.

  • And no family of course, or she would not teach a colored school.

  • I was so foolish as to think, at first, that it was because you did not wish the people where you now live to know that you had ever been a teacher in a colored school.

  • Upon inquiry she learned that it was to be opened as Colored School Number 2.

  • Chesnutt Mary Myrover's friends were somewhat surprised when she began to teach a colored school.

  • The reason Miss Myrover's course created some surprise was not, therefore, the fact that a Southern white woman should teach a colored school; it lay in the fact that up to this time no woman of just her quality had taken up such work.

  • We also visited a colored school of two hundred and twenty-four pupils.

  • He was at this time teaching a colored school.

  • I found the prejudice here very bitter against a colored school; but the colored people had combined their weak forces and built a church, designed for school, as well as their occasional meetings.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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