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Report of Union Aid
Hall Colored Evening School
L Street, near Sixteenth,
Washington, D.C.

This school was commenced Sept. 12, 1864, by Mr. J. M. Perkins.  The Superintendent or Principal took charge of it in October following.
The school has been held from the beginning in a Hall on L Street near Sixteenth owned by the Union Aid Society, an Association of freedmen from Virginia, designed for mutual protection & aid for themselves & their families.  The use of the Hall is granted to the school without charge.
The plan of the school has been to receive only adults, & such older children as can not attend day-school.  The number in attendance has varied from 30 to 80, being

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