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The Report of a Survey of the Public Schools of Prentiss County and Baldwyn Separate School District.

School Survey
County.

City of Richton and Perry

Survey published in 1955 by the Dept. of
Educational Administration, Mississippi Southern
College, under the direction of Dr. Ralph S.
Owings.

The Report of a Survey of the Public Schools
of Quitman County and Harks Separate School
District.

Survey published in December 1955 by the Bureau of Educational Research, School of Education, University of Mississippi, under the direction of Dr. John E. Phay.

Survey published in 1955 by the Dept. of
Educational Administration, Mississippi
Southern College, under the direction of
Dr. Ralph S. Owings and Dr. Raymond M. Ainsley.

The Report of a Study of the Education for
Negroes in Sunflower County.

Survey published in March 1950 by the Bureau
of Educational Research, School of Education,
University of Mississippi, under the direction
of Dr. John E. Phay.

The Report of a Survey of the Public Schools
of Tallahatchie County.

Survey published in April 1955 by the Bureau of Educational Research, School of Education, University of Mississippi, under the direction of Dr. John E. Phay.

The Report of a Survey of the Public Schools
of Union County and New Albany Separate Dis-
trict.

Survey published in January 1956 by the Bureau of Educational Research, School of Education, University of Mississippi, under the direction of Dr. John E. Phay.

Survey published in 1956 by the Dept. of

Educational Administration, Mississippi Southern
College, under the direction of Dr. Ralph S.
Owings.

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The Report of a Survey of the Public Schools of Yalobusha County.

Survey published in June 1956 by the Bureau
of Educational Research, School of Education,
University of Mississippi, under the direction
of Dr. John B. Phay.

Speech of Governor Vardaman of Mississippi quoted in the Jackson, Mississippi Daily Clarion-Ledger. July 11, 1907

Message by Governor Fielding L. Wright to the Joint Session Mississippi Legislature, January 3, 1950.

Message from Governor White to the Senate
of Mississippi, 1953

Extraordinary Session Senate Journal, p. 970.

Analysis of Educational
Facilities Afforded to
Negroes and Whites in the
State of Louisiana

[The following material is an extract from the brief of the United States filed in United States v. Board of Registration of Louisiana, (C.A. No. 2866, E.D. La.)]

From at least 1900 to the present time, the State

of Louisiana has consistently and deliberately provided Negroes with an educational system both segregated from and inferior to that provided for white persons. It is only since 1955 that the two systems have been remotely comparable. In any case, whatever changes have been made since 1955 affect very few of the vast number of Negroes who are of voting age today in Louisiana and are not registered to vote. The Negroes who today are eligible by age to vote were of school age during earlier periods, and for that reason an analysis of the constitutional validity of voter registration tests must look to the educational opportunities afforded Negroes during the critical school age periods.

Facts derived exclusively from the annual reports of the Louisiana State Superintendent of Schools show that the adult Negro of today who has grown up in Louisiana was given little opportunity to develop intellectual tools to meet stringent voter registration educational requirements on the same basis as the typical adult white person. In every particular, Negro schools have been inferior to white schools.

A. The Value of Public Schools

Prior to 1955, the typical Negro school was worth almost nothing compared to the typical white school. For example, in 1910 the average white school was worth more than 10 times that of the average Negro school. In the same year the total value of all white schools

1/ Table I, Appendix A,

2/

was 23 times that of the value of all Negro schools,

although Negroes constituted 44% of the school-age Negroes

population.

This disparity persisted so that in 1950,

when Negroes constituted 39% of the school-age popula

47groes

tion, the total value of all white schools was seven times that of the total value of all Negro schools, and

the average white school was worth eleven times that of 5/

the average Negro school."

Another important distinction is in annual expenditures per student. In 1920 Louisiana spent an average of $33.71 for each white pupil enrolled in school, but only

6/

$7.81 for each Negro pupil enrolled. In 1940 it spent

$69.37 for each white student and $16.88 for each Negro 1/

Lack of funds inevitably resulted in a lower percentage of enrollment and of daily attendance of Negro school-age children compared to the enrollment and daily

2/ Ibid.

3/ Table II, Appendix A,

4/ Ibid.

5/ Table I, Appendix A.

6/ Table III, Appendix A.

attendance of white school-age children. For example,

in 1910 75.9% of the white "educables" were enrolled

in schools compared to only 46.3% of the Negro

compared

"educables." The percentage in average daily attend

ance was 46% of the white pupils but only 24% of the

9/

Negro pupils. By 1940 the difference had been reduced

to 78% of the white children enrolled compared to 73.9%

of the Negro children enrolled."

10/

D. Length of School Terms

In 1910 the school term for white students was 153

11/

days, for Negro students only 90 days. The better enrollment figures for 1940 (see Section C above) are less impressive in light of the continued disparity in length of school terms, which in that year was 180 days 12/ for white students and 147 days for Negro students. E. Salaries of Teachers

Prior to 1945 Negro teachers received less than one-half of the salaries received by white teachers. In 1920 the average annual salary was $1198.98 for white teachers (male) and $374.37 for Negro teachers

8/ Table IV, Appendix A,

9/ Ibid.

10/ Ibid.

11/ Table V, Appendix A.

12/ Ibid.