Arkansas State press., 1954-06-18


Member of the Educational Committee
For convenience in discussing the public the
Negroes of Arkansas the state be divided into three
parts: % counties containing Negro educabes 2) coun-
ties containing few Negro educabes; and (3) counties
containing large percentage of Negro educables.
OF the rs counties of Arkansas the 1850 enumeration
showed that one Marion, had Negro population Twelve
other counties were shown Negro population rang
ing from person about II, but Negroes of educabe
age These Il counties Baxter Boone Carroll Clay Gle
burne Fulton, Madison, Newton Polk, Searey Sharp and
Stone In these 10 counties and the school districts which
compose Them there is no present racial problem IN education
obligation of the of the state stat
reads a follows: "The State shall maintain
general suitable and efficient system of free schools whore
by persons the State between the of six and wen
tyone years may receive gratuitous Instruction. Arce
XIV Section u further "The equality of all
before the recognized and shall remain in
vioae nor shall any citizen deprived any right priv
iege immunity exempted from any burden or DUTY
account of color previous condition CArtice H.
Section 81
There are 10 counties which have fewer than 100 educa
bles they sometimes called enumefates lhese a
cordinp to reports from the counties are Benton l.
Franklin IS; Greene, Z; Rard ~ Johnson 4' Lawrence
76 Montgomery Z Perry Sc; Pike 81 Randolph 49, Van
Buren, 49, Washington II; Scots counties have from loo
to 200 Negro educabes Crawford 1885, independence 39
Logan 1911 Pope 1855; Saline, 49, and Yell 1913 One has
3oe-rant FAYETTEVILLE is located Washington county and
Sheridan in Grant The first actions naturally oc
this type of community because it is mere segregation
costs in the way nresdent tuition and transportation
show wildly.
All of these counties are subdvided into districts and
LIN
district which many 95 is Van Buren, IN raw
ford county 95 enumeraes only 6l are IN average oas
school attendance In the counties named mere are "A us
tricts with 80 and 70 pupils in daily average a
tendance and districts with from to 80 pupils IN at
tendance the average number OF pupils handed ua
nv Negro teacher in the 49, it will readily be seen
that most of these the counties will be
and schools with the consequent loss IN efficiency
of instruction. management supervision and ADMINISTRATOR
While most pupils in such smalnumber communities are
handled in the primary grades the number Is so s' III
some instances there nonresident transportation even
for primaries Obviously, teacher will hardly be hed ana
a plant erected for 5 first graders.
In higher elementary grades and particularly IN the
high grades pupils in districts with small numbers Oh
transported to another district with the sate
bearing the cost of transportation and tuition through e
For example Benton districts six Negro high school pu-
nils 20 to Little cost of $7310o for tuition ana
se7o 90 for transportation Bauxte districts Negro g
school pupils 90 Little Rock at cost OF S4oooo tuition anu
1898 90 transportation. Harmony Lane districts one Neso
elementary school student is transported to Benton az
of S72O0 Waldron district in Scott county mas he Hes
enumerate but it is difficult to say what becomes VI
Clinton districts Negro high school students are uasp
to East Conway county at cost OF S3oooo tu 1
the transportation being readily aVaiaoie LII e Dig
ger-Reyno Randolph county, elementary
ara TRANSPORTED to Pocahontas cost of S5lloo and
high school pupils go to Jonesboro with $s9oo pad lo
and board Eight high school pupils OF the 40
trct in Pope county go Morrlton at cost OF Sllaoo
for TRANSPORTATION the tuition being readily obainable
by the researcher high school students of Atn asc'
in Pope county go to Morrton at cost o SfA''o0 p
tation and $1,995.00 for tuition -, .
Fayetteville paid S74760O tuition to Fort onnn lo,
its Negro high school students Within the time minus po
on this study was possible to determine where ohe
dan of recent favorable and unavorabe publicity sent us
Negro students if anywhere how much if anything II
paid their education.
To illustrate the cost of education under the system ca
listing up to in county thny populated WIN
Negroes Bentonvle district in Benton county hau one
Negro child who have attended school in the 1St
grade for ITO DAYS at $50 the state Compare
this with the total per capita expenditure white child OF
S51 and Negro child of S10 and the eXpenSeness Oh the
present system becomes apparent $4,000 :,
These instances do exhaust all the OF what
known tuition and transportation Inc toId
cost for the state transporting Negro students from one
school to another kept separately and be calculated
only bv several DAYS work. 1855 Negroes and 8OS white
pupils such transportation at total cost OF Soo
90 all probability the greater amount was pald lr ue
larger group the Negro group The cost of tuition Tor Negro
children educated points outside of their district toau
S32O23O0 for 391 children of grades to g. and S3ooooo
for children in grades to H. The total amount OF nones
ent tuition and transportation spent for Negro children each
year sufficient to put that year Norh Sea aC
credited high school equal to the Negro nigh schoo CoS