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A VOICE FROM
on the whole wives would better yield to
white; since clearly all women are not wives,
while surely all wives are daughters. The
daughters therefore could represent the wives
and this immaculate assembly for propagating
liberal and progressive ideas and disseminating
a broad and humanizing culture might be
spared the painful possibility of the sight of a
black man coming in the future to escort from
an evening class this solitary cream-colored
applicant. Accordingly the Kentucky secre¬
tary took the cream-colored applicant aside,
and, with emotions befitting such an epoch-
making crisis, told her, "as kindly as she
could," that colored people were not admitted
to the classes, at the same time refunding the
money which said cream-colored applicant
had paid for lessons in type-writing.
When this little incident came to the
knowledge of Miss Shaw, she said firmly and
emphatically, NO. As a minister of the gospel
and as a Christian woman, she could not lend
her influence to such unreasonable and un¬
charitable discrimination; and she must resign
the honor of president of Wimodaughsis if
persons were to be proscribed solely on ac¬
count of their color.
To the honor of the board of managers, be it
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