Negroes in the Public Elementary Schools of the North

PREVIOUS to the Civil War education for the Negro was provided only in scattered schools in the North, when 1.7 per cent of the Negro population of school age attended school; so that we may say that sixty-odd years ago Negro education in the United States, as a whole, was near the zero point. Therefore, the development of Negro education to its present state has taken place in the past sixty-five years. In order to visualize this development and contrast it with the attendance of whites, the following tables are presented. The first of the tables shows the total population between five and twenty years and the total number attending school of all ages at each ten-year period from 1859 to 1920. The second table shows the total white attendance, and the third the Negro attendance. The Negro attendance has increased from 1.7 of the total population of elementary school age in 1850 to 54 per cent in 1920

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• Growing up Black

  David Tyack, David B Tyack•History of Education Quarterly•1969

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