Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-24

separate, but eQual, opportunities.
In the facility phase, here is
what was shown by the state de-
partment Of education:
White high schools and junior
college, 81, against 6 for Negroes.
High school and elementary
schools, 40 for whites and 279 for
Negroes.
Elementary only: $50 whites,
against 2,049 for Negroes.
There were 298 white one-two
and three-teacher schools, against
1,849 for Negroes. One-teacher
white schools totaled AZ against
LOTT for Negroes; 2-teacher white,
81 and 612 Negroes; and 3-teacher
whites TIA and 100 Negroes.
On the teacher salary issue, fur
Their differences were reported.
In the 1928 session, the aver
age white classroom teacher salary
was $2,109 against 1853 for Ne
groes.
We have made much progress in
that field. In the 1941-42 session,
the average white classroom teach
er's salary was $735. In that Pc
riod, we gained 1,424 white teach
ers for a 1928 total of 8,744.
Negro teachers in the 1941-42
term were paid an average of 1892
a year. But the number dropped
off 243 for the latest total of 6,48O.
Under the new salary schedule
outlined in the equalization pro-
gram, the disparaties are supposed
to be eliminated. That is, insofar
as state funds are involved. They
can still exist through the so-called
enriched" program supported from
local taxes.
The average salary now paid
white classroom teachers with MA.
degrees is $2,687, against $4,000
for Negroes. B.A. degree holders,
it is $2,165 for whites and $1,6O7
for Negroes.
Other present day averages in
clude:
Those with 3 years college train
ing: Whites, $1,768; Negroes, 81,
258.
Two years college training:
whites, $1,000; Negroes, $1,Os9.
One year college training:
whites, $1,000; Negroes, 1922.
High school graduates: whites,
$l,357; Negroes, s744.
There are only 1877 whites with
three years college training and
less, against 1880 Negroes.
Indicative of the efforts of Ne
gro teachers to better themselves,
in 1943-44 there were 684 with B.A.
degrees against 1,248 today. That
compares with 4,577 whites ten
years ago and 6,64O now.
The number of white teachers
with 3 years college training
dropped in that the year period
from 1,441 to 1,248, while the num-
Der of Negroes increased from
308 to 1926. White teachers with 2
years college training dropped in
that period from 1874 to 525, while
the Negroes increased from 1888 to
1921; and with one years college
training, the number of white
teachers dropped from GA to 14O,
while the Negroes increased from
921 to 1890.
We were either not training negro
teachers, or those with higher edu-
cation were going elsewhere.
There was more than that which
caused our present crisis"
In the 1928 term, we spent
$4,476,753 transporting white chill
dren to school, and $1,179,826 on
negroes. A total of 146,O66 whites
rode to school, and only $1,000
negroes on an average daily trans
portation basis.
Mississippi spent $23,536,O22 on
instruction for its white children,
and $8,816,670 on negroes. The
total Institutional cost of $685.
692 rose from $1O,394.244 in 1912
43 or up $21 ,958, 1853.
In the 1942-43 period, Mississippi
spent 1876 to educate each child,
and in 1928 that cost rose to
$100.81. The national average is
1928. In that period, the average
daily attendance fell off 1900 for
a 1928 total of 464,376.
With the state putting up 81 per-
cent of the school cost, against 1877
by the counties and 32.4 by the
separate districts, there seems to
be merit in more state level control
And that is just what the new
program enacted in 1853, and par
TALLY completed in 1854 set out to
do. Even in the face of the past
experience, strong opposition was
registered against asserted "cen-
tralization" in Jackson.
All this background brings us
down to May II, 1854.
Where do we 60 from there?
| am certain it will be some years
before an actual showdown on inte-
grafton faces Mississippi. That
doesn't mean there won't be some
efforts made sooner, but litigation
will be the delaying weapon.
Still facing the states with dual
systems is the actual wording Of
the courts decision banning segre-
CATION. believe most of US feel
that the court will set timetable
for its execution.
In the meantime, some phases Of
the new negro-white equalization
| nrnura,,o will no atarted Regardless