Rosedale · 13 October 1924
Chinese Barred From Rosedale Schools; Governor Brewer Attacked And Defended For Taking Up Case
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For several years quite a number of Chinese children have attended the white public schools in Rosedale. Beginning with two or three the number increased each year until during the session of 1922-23, there were about ten or twelve scattered through the various grades.
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Clarksdale Daily Register (Clarksdale, Miss.), 13 October 1924, p. 2, editorial credited to the Bolivar County Democrat.
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For several years quite a number of Chinese children have attended the white public schools in Rosedale. Beginning with two or three the number increased each year until during the session of 1922-23, there were about ten or twelve scattered through the various grades.
Reports earlier attendance at Rosedale, but is not an enrollment record.
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Source-ledger reading; no independent human or community review.
The missing Attorney General opinion, an authenticated office copy, Rosedale School Board minutes, enrollment registers, or an independent colored-school record.
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How many Chinese children went to the white schools in Rosedale?
This newspaper account reports about ten or twelve across the grades in the 1922–23 session, growing from two or three some years earlier. Those are a newspaper's figures. No enrolment register is quoted, and the account is written in the middle of a public dispute.