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(EDUCATION.) CARDOZO, FRANCIS LOUIS. Autograph Letter Signed to Maj. General O. O. Howard, June 29, 1869, on Executive Department Office of the Secretary of State letterhead. Small 4to sheet, folded to form four 8vo pages, written on two sides; creased where folded. Columbia, S.C., 1869
A fine letter to the founder of Howard University. "I am anxious to have two of my old scholars in Charleston enter the Howard University. Their names are Joseph Morris and Thomas Stewart. They are two black boys." He goes on to describe how the two students are familiar with mathematics and Caesar''s "De Bello Gallica." Francis Louis Cardozo (1837-1903), minister, educator and politician was born in Charleston, the son of a free black woman and a Jewish father. Cardozo was active in the turbulent politics of Reconstruction and especially so in the area of educating the ex-slave. "Despite his support for integration, he also understood the logic articulated by black teachers of maintaining support for separate schools for blacks who wished to avoid the hostility and violence that often accompanied integration." (African-American National Biography)
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