(EDUCATION.) Report of the Primary School Committee, June 15, 1846 on the Petition of Sundry Colored Persons, for the Abolition of the Schools for Colored Children. With the City Solicitor's Opinion. City Document-No. 23. Small engraved vignette on

(EDUCATION.) Report of the Primary School Committee, June 15, 1846 on the Petition of Sundry Colored Persons, for the Abolition of the Schools for Colored Children. With the City Solicitor's Opinion. City Document-No. 23. Small engraved vignette on title page. 38 pages. 8vo, origi-nal printed blue wrappers. Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1846 E400/600 FIRST EDITION. Third of four petitions to the Primary School Committee of Boston in an attempt to close the all-colored Smith School and integrate those children into the general Boston school system. These petitions ended with the 1849 land-mark case of Sarah C. Roberts who sued the city of Boston for refusing to admit a colored child. The case was argued by Charles Sumner and African-American attorney Robert Morris before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The Court found for the city; thus was born the concept of "equality before the law," i.e., "separate but equal." In 1855 Boston fully integrated its schools. Not in Blockson Collection; Schomburg Collection, Sc 379.74-B.