A Common School History of the Present

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Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education
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The upper class opposed taxes for public schooling
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The working class was opposed to taxes for public schooling
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Famous 1876 editorial cartoon by Thomas Nast depicting Roman Catholic bishops as crocodiles attacking public schools, with the connivance of Irish Catholic politicians
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Local Funding for Schools from the 19th century until the present.
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Roberts v. City of Boston In the 1840s Benjamin Roberts of Boston began a legal campaign to enroll his five-year-old daughter, Sarah, in a nearby school for whites