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While I would not . . . detract from the credit justly due the men . . . . It was these mothers who accompanied me to the various schoolhouses, to residences of teachers and committee-men, to see the laws of the Old Bay State applied in good faith.

Source: Fighting Jim Crow Schools in Boston, Sep 1855.
-- William C Nell, ( 1816-1874), US historian, abolitionist; He was the author of one of the earliest works of African American history, Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812, 1851.

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