Letter, A.L. Johnson to James A. Burns; February 23, 1948

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Identifier	tgc-t004-014
Title	Letter, A.L. Johnson to James A. Burns; February 23, 1948
Description	From the Bates (Gladys Noel) Papers. Typewritten letter from A.L. Johnson to James A. Burns on the letterhead of Mississippi Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (MTACS), dated February 23, 1948. Johnson asks that Burns prepare a power of attorney as a necessary first step to then request that African American children in Mississippi schools be provided with the same opportunities for school that white students had (school terms are shorter for African American children), transportation, equpiment, and school facilities. The power of attorney would authorize Burns to prepare a petition with these requests. The school district to be petitioned had not been decided, but Farmhaven Consolidated School District in Madison County was mentioned as a possibility. Johnson also writes that while teacher pay is of interest to teachers, the inequities he writes about have a broader base of interest (patrons, parents, community).
Creator	Johnson, A. L.
Date	23 February 1948
Coverage (time period)	February 1948
Subject	African American children--Education. African American teachers--Salaries, etc. Mississippi.
Resource type	Text
Format	Digital reproduction of a 1-page document
Language	English
Publisher	Mississippi Digital Library. (electronic version) Tougaloo College. (electronic version)
Contributors	Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Notes	Item housed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Rights	This item may be protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Contributing institution	Tougaloo College Archives, L. Zenobia Coleman Library, Tougaloo College.
Collection	Bates (Gladys Noel) Papers.
Source	Box 2, Folder 0
Digital repository	Mississippi Digital Library.
Digital collection	Tougaloo College.
File size	312.721 KB
File extension	JPG
Width	1707
Height	2208
Color space	Grayscale
File name	tgc-t004-014-01.jpg

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