Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1950-04-28
EDIT orr Al 5 :.
College Education Is More
SEPARATE Than Equal

Nv s.
State colleges universities in Arkansas are not accom-
rnodane as many Negroes they should and the amount
already spent state education Tor Negro coiesae
is nowhere equal propoonae TO that spent on Wes a
cordnp to figures published special Sunday EDITION III
,ca, Negro in Arkansas state college num-
her one to every five white students whereas Negroes N gen
eral are three white persons In o'e pase
Negroes are SO percent of white people In genera ou, oy
per cent of white college students This accommodation mans
testify unequal - - ,,, ,ooo
buildings for every spent Negro college buildings Dc
rgno n the state whereas to the proportion fair and ac
cordng to the population ratio there should be only three dol
hars spent college buildings for each one dollar spent
on Negro college buildings 49,
The general figures as given in Sunday paper 524
white students and Ills Negro students attending state sup
ported colleges Money spent is S2o2506o Tor wme coege
buildings and 81 100000 for Negro college buildings one-h
the students oneeghh the is the present quote
for Negroes
AS matter of fact even proporlinate money might be
unfair the Negro student and discrimination against MN
This is true because needed adequate not proportion
ate education An adequate university for 100 students would
cost Just much adequate university Tor soo
students would very little difference in the capital In
Some dference-yesi but not dileenoe Oh uee
times or even twice much
One another may be alleged Tor TINS disparity IN
cost and enrolment but the plain fact OF the matter ha
Negro college has been neither encouraged nor invest
ed in by the state until recently. that great strides
recently also true that more great strides
needed
Returns for private education are not complete the pa
that Negro college enrolment is proportonate to
white college enrolment In private institutions than In state
There white students private white colleges to In
Negro private better than the In five
state Costs given way that permits comparison
As often in white paper OF the figures for Negro col
ege enrolment particularly the of private colleges
The paper referred the fact that Negroes
In college today number rs cent than those enrolled
last This is all good but the paper notes that
enrolment In all Arkansas colleges for last 1862 for
whites 21s6 for Negroes the Negro comprising oneh
the population and only of the college white pop
ulaton This distinctly NOT GOOD The Negro If anything
needs education than the white person. for the cards
stacked against the Negro heavily.
Our state department of education is of the best the
nation II is due to its efforts chiefly that the standards have
been raised to the present point is to be hoped that
parmen will not be discouraged by the difficulty of the
remaining ahead but will continue efforts until Negro
Arkansas expect without friction the educational
vantages white boy The most general glance the
rcum and equipment of white and Negro colleges and uni
verses will show that this is not true at present Facing the
rising Of day begun let till" education
Is dominated by democracy.