Financial Support of Secondary Education for Negroes in Georgia

Georgia is faced with the task of educating more Negroes than any other state. Its Negro population, slightly more than a million persons or 37.7 per cent of the total population, is distributed unequally among 159 counties comprising 10 congressional districts. In 1940, 65.6 per cent of this population was designated as rural; the Negro population in 46 counties exceeded 50 per cent of the total population; and the Negro school-age population, 5-17 years, was 310,863, about a third of which were of high school age. In 1946, Georgia was able to enroll 20 per cent of all the children of high school age but only 12.4 per cent of the Negro children in the same age group. The Negro children were enrolled in 533 schools offering high school work but only 216 of these schools offered a four year course. The educational level attained by the adult population in a state has been used as a measure of that state's accomplishment in education. Two'recent studies' assigned Georgia a state rank of 43 on the basis of the educational attainments of its adult population. An analysis of this status by

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