Museum object · Slavery and Freedom Objects
Minute book from the Fayette Free School
April 1872
Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A small brown leather minute book with handwritten minutes from the Fayette Free School, April 1872, recorded by J.P. Morrison, Board Clerk. Content includes reminder to enumerate children, arrangements for school for children of color in church basement, and difference in teacher salaries. Several pages have been torn from the front of the book.
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Catalog reference: 2011.106.33
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