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Committee Appointed

Clarksdale · 5 March 1924

Committee Appointed

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A committee to investigate the situation concerning the education of Chinese children in this community was appointed.

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Clarksdale Daily Register (Clarksdale, Miss.), 5 March 1924, p. 5, ‘Committee Appointed,’ within ‘Women Entertains Zone Rally for Regular Meeting.’

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A committee to investigate the situation concerning the education of Chinese children in this community was appointed.

Records that a committee was appointed to investigate the education of Chinese children. The item appears inside a report of a church meeting, which is where its setting comes from; the printed sentence does not say what the committee proposed or what came of it.

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Source-ledger reading; no independent human or community review.

An original county-superintendent, school-board, or district record; any administrative response or completed school project.

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What did this Clarksdale meeting decide about Chinese children's schooling?

It appointed a committee to investigate. Nothing here records what the committee found, whether it reported, or what followed.

Cited source: 5 March 1924

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