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of the white children would take them away if Black children were admitted into the schools. Tiffany ultimately advised against admitting Black children into public schools, stating, “it would not be advisable to yield to it, but that the law ought to be enforced without distinction of colour (...) if a firm stand be taken at first, the prejudice will soon give way.”
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corresponded with the prejudices of the white population, arose from "an apprehension that the children of the coloured people, many of whom have but lately escaped from a state of slavery, may be, in respect to morals and habits, unfortunately worse trained than the white children are in general, and that their children might suffer from the effects of bad example."
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