146 Negro Migration 



Per Capita Expenditure for Teachers' Salaries in Southern 



Counties Grouped According to Percentage of 



Negroes in the Population. 



White Negro 

 Per Capita Per Capita 



Counties under 10 per cent $7.96 $7.23 



Counties 10 to 25 per cent 9.55 5.55 



Counties 25 to 50 per cent 11.11 3.19 



Counties 50 to 75 per cent 12.53 1.77 



Counties 75 per cent and over 22.22 1.78 



This low per capita for both races is attributed to the 

 fact that the South, with less wealth than other sections, 

 has difficulty in securing adequate revenue for the school 

 system, and that this revenue has to be divided between the 

 two systems of schools. In the counties over 50 per cent 

 Negro, the colored children are crowded into one-room 

 country schools, while the more scattered white children 

 are provided with a proportionately larger number of 

 schools. 



The first great problem to be solved is that of adequate 

 space for pupils. In some of the Southern States the per- 

 centage of colored children 6 to 14 years of age who attend 

 school is as low as 35. In almost all the districts in the 

 open country there are less than one-third of the children 

 in attendance. The report points out that "Many communi- 

 ties do not own school buildings for the colored children. In 

 Alabama over 61 per cent of colored schools are taught 

 in buildings not owned by the county and in Georgia 

 such school houses form 63 per cent of the total. * * * 

 A careful survey of three typical counties in Alabama, 

 made by State supervisors of schools, disclosed the fact 

 that whereas the seating capacity of the 80 colored schools 

 was but 3,794 their enrollment was 6,391 and attendance 

 5,832. In other words, these schools were called upon to 

 accommodate, at the time of the survey, 2,038 more pupils 

 than their normal capacity." 



