The Negro Junior College

Many educators believe that the junior college movement is the most significant educational advance of the twentieth century. Starting most vigorously in California a little more than a quarter of a century ago, it has spread rapidly over the nation until every state in the union except Delaware, Nevada, Rhode Island and Wyoming can claim at least one. California has 55, Texas 43, and Iowa 37. There have been expressions of doubt in many quarters as to the permanency of this new type of college, but Reinharbt and Beu tell us in An Introduction to Education that the junior college is here to say. Be that as it may, we who are engaged in the difficult task of extending higher education to the ever-increasing masses of the underprivileged are asking with concern whether there is any hope to be found for the Negro youth in this new movement. Having been identified with a standard Negro junior college since its reorganization in 1929 to comply with the requirements of this two-year program, I have been fascinated by the above question and have therefore set out to investigate its possibilities

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