Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — RACE QUESTION IN SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

RACE QUESTION IN SCHOOL

Officials at Roundtree Encounter Trouble Over Colored Teacher. Princeton. Ind., Sept. 16. School officials are .. encountering serious trouble at Roundtree schoolhouse, near Patoka, over the race question. The school is, known as a mixed one. both white and colored pupils attending. This year, as usual, a colored teacher was appointed. Heretofore the colored pupils have been in the majority, but this time the white children were most numerous. When school opened this week the parents of the whites refused to • let their children go to the colored teacher and the school broke up. It is probable the school will be divided and a white teacher furnished for the v bites.