Robert Clark letter to Arvine Wales, March 12, 1872

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                        Cincinnati, March 12 1872
  Hon. Arvine C. Wales
     Columbus
     My dear Sir:  I see that you are Chairman of the Committee on Common
  Schools in the Senate and I want to write you a few lines in the interest of colored
  children.  I presume they are deprived of their rights in many sections of the
  state, as they are in the Special School District in which I reside, the Village of
  Glendale, We have always had a few colored children but never till three years
  ago, could we muster at enrollment the requisite number of 20 to have a
  separate school. So up to that time they received no attention what ever, &
  even there it needed my own constant effort to get them our apology for a
  school, but at last, a miserable room in the Village ice house, was rented
  and into this was put a lot of broken and used up benches etc from the
  cellar of the other school house, and a teacher was hired for them.  Next
  year the requisite number was again enumerated, and a respect-
  able lady teacher(white)employed, and the school continued in
  the same place with the same discomforts.  Not a trustee ever entered
  the room.  Last year, one family having moved away, the number
  of children enrolled was only 17, a grand excuse for the gentlemen
  Trustees to discontinue the school.  The same lady teacher, Miss