County Training Schools and Public Secondary Education for Negroes in the South

Chapter ICounty Training Schools and Negro Education vi duals, the Negro began to enjoy one of tlie most cherished privileges of American citizenship -the opportunity to secure an education at public expense.Despite the handicaps of racial prejudice, misguided reformers and philanthropists, sectional misunderstandings, adverse political conditions, and other limiting factors, great progress has been made during the last sixty years.The period of de- velopment preceding 1900 was characterized by the gradual acceptance of the idea of public schools for Negroes .This, in turn, tended to strengthen the ideal of public schools for all children in the South.Perhaps the most important gain dur- ing this period was the gradual recognition of the fact that education for individuals of both races was mutually desirable .and advantageous for broader social development.The Growth of Public Secondary Education for NegroesThe development of public elementary schools for Negroes throughout the South preceded a similar development of sec- ondary schools.The exact number of public Negro secondary schools which were in existence before 1900 is not known.In 1916, however, Jones'* reported that there were 64 public high schools for Negroes in the Southern states of which 45 offered four year courses.According to the National Survey of Secondary Education, there were 1,150 public secondary schools for Negroes in 1930.This indicates a tremendous advance in this field of education.Undoubtedly many factors have contributed to this growth.The popularization and development of public secondary edu- cation in the United States as a whole must have been such a factor.According to the United States Office of Education, 11,680 public secondary schools in this country enrolled 1,329,- 000 pupils in 1916.Ten years later the number of schools had doubled and the enrollment increased three-fold.Considering public Negro secondary schools separately, it is known that in 1916 tljere were in 15 Southern states 64 public secondary schools enrolling 8,565 pupils.^Dataare not available for aninterval of ten years.Fifteen years later, however, the num

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• Disparities in accessibility of public high schools, in metropolitan Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1990–2010

  Shaun Williams, Fahui Wang•Urban Geography•2014

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• Accredited Negro secondary schools and selective college admissions

  Edward E Redcay•Peabody Journal of Education•1936

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• Northern Foundations and the Shaping of Southern Black Rural Education, 1902-1935

  James D Anderson•History of Education Quarterly•1978

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• Teacher Training and African American Education in the South, 1900-1940

  Michael Fultz•The Journal of Negro Education•1995

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• The Evolution of the Negro College

  Open Access•Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes•Teachers College Record The Voice…•1935

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• Common Schools for Negroes in the South

  Open Access•N C Newbold•The Annals of the American…•1928

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• The South's Negro Teaching Force

  Fred Mccuistion•The Journal of Negro Education•1932

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