164 Negro Migration 



cent of their school population throu gh migration, while 

 some-lncxeaging_counties, gain as much as 60 per cent in 

 scho ol popul ation. Inasmuch as the State school report 

 for 1918 showed that 2,480, or 85 per cent of the colored 

 schools in Georgia, were in one room buildings, the tre- 

 mendous burden which these rapid fluctuations of popu- 

 lation puts on the school facilities will be readily under- 

 stood. 



There is evidence that the increase in colored school 

 population and increase in appropriations for colored 

 schools are in many counties almost unrelated. Exam- 

 ining the 105 rural counties for which accurate records 

 of expenditures are available as far back as 1908, 7 the 

 following distribution of counties is obtained for the period 

 1908-13: 



Number of Counties 

 Increasing Decreasing 

 Negro School Expenditure Expenditure 



Population for Salaries for Salaries Total 



Counties Increasing .... 55 12 67 



Counties Decreasing ... 29 9 38 



Total 84 21 105 



It appears that there was a tendency all over the State 

 towards increase both in school population and expenditure 

 in colored schools, for 67 of the counties were increasing in 

 population and 84 increasing in expenditures. It also ap- 

 pears that the expenditures for Negro teachers' salaries was 

 realized to be so low in 1908, that there was a tendency to 

 increase them in many counties regardless of whether the 

 Negro school population was increasing or decreasing. 



of the migration of 1916-17. Heavy losses in school population 

 are evident in the sections of the State disturbed by the boll 

 weevil and the labor agents. 



7 Annual School Reports, Georgia State Dep't. of Education, 

 1908, 1913, and 1918. Tables showing colored school population 

 and expenditure for colored teachers' salaries. 



