The Daily Ardmoreite

NO MIXED SCHOOLS

Letter From Department Says Negroes Cannot Attend White Schools.

E. Johnson, who has received the appointment as school teacher at the asphalt mines, was in the city last night. He stated to a reporter for the Ardmoreite that he had received advice concerning the question of mixed schools, which has caused a number of persons in his section a good deal of worrying. It seems that a colored child wanted to attend the same school in his section, and it was reported that under the appropriation made by congress, mixed schools were possible, the matter was taken up with the interior department with the request for an interpretation of the law. The reply was that colored children could not attend the same schools with whites, that the appropriation was not available for that purpose. The letter, it is said, also stated that separate schools must be maintained. This settles the unnecessary alarm and fear that mixed schools in this country are possible.

In any event there could be no such thing as schools of the kind mentioned above, at least in Indian Territory.

Mr. Johnson says he will have a class of some seventy-five pupils made possible by the action of congress.