* In 1901.

a Approximately.

b No definite session.

e For hospitals for insane the number of inmates is given instead of beds for patients.

CHAPTER XLIII.

EDUCATION OF THE COLORED RACE.

References to preceding publications of the United States Bureau of Education in which this subject has been treated: Annual Reports-1870, pp. 61, 337-339; 1871, pp. 6, 7, 61-70; 1872, pp. xvii, xviii; 1873, p. lxvi; 1875, p. xxiii; 1876, p. xvi; 1877, pp. xxxiii-xxxviii; 1878, pp. xxviii-xxxiv; 1879, pp. xxxix-xlv; 1880, p. lviii; 1881, p. lxxxii; 1882-83, pp. xlviii-lvi, 85; 1883-84, p. liv; 1881-85, p. lxvii; 1885-86, pp. 596, 650–656; 1886-87, pp. 790, 874-881; 1887-88, pp. 20, 21, 167, 169, 988-998; 1888-89, pp. 768, 1412-1439; 1889-90, pp. 620, 621, 621, 634, 1073-1102, 1388-1392, 1395-1485; 1890-91, pp. 620, 624, 792, 808, 915, 961-980, 1469; 1891-92, pp. 8, 686, 688, 713, 861-867, 1002, 1234-1237; 1892-93, pp. 15, 442, 15511572, 1976; 1893-94, pp. 1019-1061; 1894-95, pp. 1331-1424; 1895-96, pp. 2081, 2115; 1896-97, pp. 22952333; 1897–98, pp. 2479-2507; 1898-99, pp. 2201-2225; Introduction to Annual Report for 1898-99, pp. lxxxviii-xeii; 1899-1900, pp. 2501-2531; 1900-1901, pp. 2299-2331; Circulars of Information-No. 3, 1883, p. 63; No. 2, 1886, pp. 123–133; No. 3, 1888, p. 122; No. 5, 1888, pp. 53, 54, 59, 60, 80-86; No. 1, 1892, p. 71; Special report on District of Columbia for 1869, pp. 193, 300, 351-400. Special report, New Orleans Exposition, 1884-85, pp. 468-470, 775-781.

The fifteen tables of this chapter exhibiting the statistics of negro education need but little explanation. Table 1 shows the amount expended for the public educa- . tion of both races in the South each year since 1870, and the common school enrollment of whites and negroes separately each year since 1876. For 1901-2 the common school expenditure for both races was $37,567,552. About 20 per cent of this amount was expended upon the public schools for the negroes. The aggregate common school expenditure in the South since 1870 has been $687,691,329. It is estimated that at least $125,000,000 of this sum has been expended to support common schools for negro children.

Table 2, divided into two parts, summarizes the statistics of education in the common schools of the South for the year 1901-2, contrasting the schools for the two races. Tables 3, 4, 5, and 6 give condensed statistics of public high schools for the negroes, while Tables 7 to 12 summarize the statistics of private institutions devoted to the secondary and higher education of the colored race. Table 13 shows a list of public high schools for negroes, and Tables 14 and 15 give the statistics of private schools.

TABLE 1.-Sixteen former slave States and the District of Columbia.

TABLE 3.-Teachers and students in public high schools for the colored race in 1901-2.

West Virginia
Total

376

470

846

353

409

762

880

1,313

2, 193

860

1,259

2, 119

438

573

0

0

0

*p["log

61

54

438

96 148

404

55

128

188

333 419

593 857

52

19

34

53

19

34

25

391 623 11,087 16,286 27,373 9,640 12,586 22, 226 1,447 3,700 5,147

TABLE 4.—Classification of colored students in public high schools by courses of study, 1901–2.