Arkansas State press., 1955-08-05
What Was Going 0n?-
BY S. S. Taylor, Associate Editor

What was happening in small school districts prior 10
the Supreme decree in May 1854?
The almost immediate indignation of hi school puphs
at FAYETTEVILLE situation there interesting The exact
number of high school Negro pupils Fayetteville was not
clear but indicated S46700 paid at other ass
for Fayetteville school pupils 1t difficult to calculate
transportation that cost also large washington cou
ty which the Fayetteville school district Is located pa
s155 per capita for the superior training OF It's "'e %
dren But Fayetteville paying than thousand dol
lars per capita the inferior training of its Negro III soo
pupils Is any that Fayetteville made an intelligent
survey of and concluded that the Indulgence OIL
a prejudice not worth that? 49,,
The Reyno district Randolph county paid SSH
far the TRANSPORTATION Negro elementary students to Po
cahonas and paid the and board of two hi school Negro
pupils Jonesboro, portion OF eir room ana ouaiu
Randolph county paid S15s per capita for its white ehdfeh
and STA for its coored but still found economical TO IN
tegrae coming September so far as the bggesyho
district is concerned. . ara 800
Negro first grade pupil attend school 10 days That one
Negro first grader the only Negro pupil IN Benton cou
ty Benton county paid S3l capita for the edueaoh Oh It's
bite children The Negro got costly but inferior education
Alma Van Buren, Charleston (Which ntegrated very soon
after NAV IT decree Ozark we'll Fayetteville sent their
little Negro learners Fort Smith No wonder Fort Smith
likes segregation Il made considerable pIolt out o ~
prejudices its neghbors There IS suspicion that te
same thing might figured about Little Rock and MOT
rlton .,, ..,.nt.
to Little Rock tuition cost of S73 and transportation
cost NJ Se70 total cost of 01 Saline county paid S54
per capita white children and Sl3i per capita Tor It's
coored children according to the statistical summary ioI u
public schools Arkansas, 195l-1954 But for these III
school pupils averaged expenditure of more than SZ8o
per capita
Bauxite also in Saline county Negro hi school pu
nils "a Little Rock at an expense $3.50 tuition and 1898
TRANSFORMATION total OF S1Of3 For the training of these
Negro students Baue averaged more than SOU per capita
in county where per capita for white students was only
S154
Dardanele 30 Negro school students to Nor
rlton Danvile Morrlton and Havana sent l. All
three of points in Yell county The total cost oil
TRANSPORTATION tuition to have been S3If9 Inc
cost of six from Danve $1447 but the cost of the
20 from Dardanee have been only $3.50 Yell coun-
y maid SIS per capita for its white pupils and Sl44 for Its
colored, - st ~ q.
T. These scattered statistics make effort to give COM
plete picture situation but merely illustrate the
general truth prejudice results in costly as Well as "
eror education The wasting of school funds IN unnecessary
tuition and transportation sending pupil past one Scoo To
get him another plus the unnecessary duplication and re-
duplication facilities costs the state enough each year "
keen il in the of education in the nation Bern
ard Mandel writing the JuneJuy Crisis opp 345 III SHOWS
that in slavery unionism, well in education peJu
segregation have injured the white race as uc DIS
il has the colored off the education bottom
we will have TO get off the prejudice bottom.