Black nuns in Baltimore petition Black Superintendent of Schools William Howard Day for support for their school and orphanage
description: Oblate Sisters of Providence to William H. Day (supt of F Schools) gives a history of the school, which the Black sisters established for the education of Black children. Opened a free school and orphan asylum since the war. Petition for financial assistance. Claim that they don't show any preference to religious denomination of students.
date: 10/22/1867
coverage: Baltimore, MD