Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-05
Southern States Making Equitable
Division Of Land Grant College Funds
To White and CoIored Colleges
Mississippi coIored Land Grant
Colleges Get 56.2 Per Cent Of Fund on
1872 Per Cent Population
For the NNPA News Service
By Louis Lautier

Washington, d. c. Mar. (NNPA)
Southern States - very much to
the surprise of northern Republi-
cans and Democrats are max
ing an equitable appropionment
between white and colored land
grant colleges for federal appro-
priated for the further endowment
of agricultural Snd mechanical col
leges.
The cum of $2,4S0, 900 for this
purpose is carried in the Labor
Federal Security appropriation
bill, which the House passed last
Tuesday. The Merrill-Nelson and
the' Bankhead-Jones Acts, under
which this appropriation is made,
calls for an allotment of $4,000
annually to each state and terri
tory for the more complete endow-
ment of the land1grant colleges.
Separate Immigrant colleges are
maintained for colored and white
students in seventeen states.
The question of what division of
the allotments was made between
the colored and white land-grant
colleges arose during hearings on
the supply bill before the Labor
Federal Security appropriations
subcommittee.
No formula was established for
making the division, but the law
simply requires that the states
comply with equity as they see it..
A table prepared by the Office of
Education, showing the basis for
appropriating these funds between
colored and whites land-grant col
leges, the percentages received by
the colored land-grant colleges in
the year d1944-1945, and the per-
centages colored people are of the
total population, follows:
Arkansas: The basis was three
elevenths; the colored Immigrant
college received 27.3 per cent;
the colored population was 24.S
per cent.
Delaware: The basis Of appro-
tionment was 20 per cent, the
colored land-grant college received
20 per cent; the colored population
was 1874 per cent.
Florida: The basis of approtion-
ment was equal; the colored land
grant college received so per cent;
the colored population was 27.1
per cent.
Georgia: The basis of apportion-
ment was one-third; the colored
land-grant college received 1873
per cent; the colored population
was BAT per cent.
Kentucky: The basis Of appor-
tionment was the school popula-
ton; the colored Immigrant col
lege received 14.5 per cent; the
colored population was rs per
cent.
Louisiana: The basis of appor-
tionment was the school popula-
ton: the colored land-grant col
.lege received $50 per cent; the
colored population was 1873 per
cent.
Maryland: The basis of appor-
tionment was the percentage Of
total population; the colored Ian
grant college received 1877 per
cent; the colored population was
1876 per cent.
Mississippi: The basis of appor-
tionment was the percentage OF
school population; the colored land
grant college received 56.2 per
cent; the colored population was
1872 per cent.
Missouri: The basis Of appor-
tionment waso ne-sixteenth; the
colored Immigrant college receiv-
ed 6.3 perc emit; the colored popu-
lation was GA per cent.
North Carolina: The basis OF
apportionment was the percentage
of total population; the colored
Immigrant college received $3.50
per cent; the colored population
was 27.4 perc emit.