A report on Delta school cases

The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, Mississippi) · 20 October 1927

The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, Mississippi), 20 October 1927, page 14, ‘Day by Day in Mississippi,’ by Helen Goodwin Yerger, opening paragraph. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

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two cases originating in the delta section of the state from the exclusion of Chinese children from white schools.

This column explicitly locates the school cases in the Delta section of Mississippi. The place is in the report itself, rather than inferred from where the newspaper was printed.

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

The excerpt records the newspaper’s account of two cases. It does not independently establish every legal assertion in the column, case identities, the outcome of either proceeding, or subsequent school attendance.

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What does this say about where the school cases came from?

It says two cases originated in the Delta and arose from the exclusion of Chinese children from white schools. It is a report's summary; it names neither case nor town.

Cited source: 20 October 1927