Sarah Lattimore Registers For Classes

Sarah Lattimore of Moreau, in Saratoga County registered for classes. There is no extant documentation of her attendance, graduation, or race. It is possible that Sarah was the daughter of Benjamin Lattimore, Jr., a leader in Albany's Black community. In September 1857, Susan B. Anthony made a motion at the New York State Teachers Association Annual Meeting against the expulsion of a "Miss Latimer," delegate from Saratoga County, from the "N. Y. Normal School at Albany" for being Black. The Normal School Executive Committee Minutes often documented expulsions, but does not mention this case. The mission of the school was always to educate a broad body of New York State residents, but it often failed to live up to that mission throughout its history.

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