Letter from Harry Peterman, a senior at the high school in Slocomb, Alabama, to Governor Benjamin Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
In the letter Harry explains that his school will close on January 26 if the state does not provide money for it. He asks the governor to convene the legislature to redistribute funding: "The attendance are increasing although education finances are decreasing. Spending millions of dollars for...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | In the letter Harry explains that his school will close on January 26 if the state does not provide money for it. He asks the governor to convene the legislature to redistribute funding: "The attendance are increasing although education finances are decreasing. Spending millions of dollars for roads and on convicts....The roads will always be here, we will not have always to get an education. Are you going to sit there and hold your hands and the children grow up in ignorance. Education is the only remedy. " |
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