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    The Sisters of St. Joseph ("teaching black children at ... a 'negro school.'")
    20 May 2016


    A century ago, three Catholic sisters in St. Augustine, Fla. were arrested for something the state Legislature had recently made a crime: Teaching black children at what, in the parlance of the time, was known as a “negro school.” The ensuing trial propelled a 266-year-old French Catholic order and America’s youngest Catholic Bishop into the middle one of the wildest and most racially charged gubernatorial campaigns in Florida history. A hundred years ago today, the white sisters won their legal battle, vindicating the rights of private institutions like the Saint Benedict the Moor School that fought to create educational opportunities ...


    https://www.redefinedonline.org/2016/05/catholic-sisters-arrested-teaching-blacks/
     
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