The Role Of Charles Lewis Reason In The Abolitionist Movement

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In 1847, Reason founded the Society for the Promotion of Education among
Colored Children with abolitionist and journalist, Charles Bennett Ray. 2 years later Charles Lewis Reason got title professor at the Free Mission College(known as New York Central College).after that all happened they allowed black students to school. Reason was an integral part of the abolitionist movement and remained a staunch champion of racial equality. He continued working up until five months before his death in August of 1893.Reason left the college after three years and became principal at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia. While there, he increased the student body and maintained the school’s status as one of the best for Black students in the
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