Note 27 — Chapter III · ITS PRESENT CONDITION AND ASPECT, AS SHOWN BY STATISTICS

According to the Educational Report of the United States Bureau of Education for 1898-1899, “the total enrolment in the public schools of the South (the sixteen former slave-States and the District of Columbia) for the year 1898-1899 was 5,662,259; the number of white children being 4,150,641 and the number of negro children 1,511,618.” Of the white school population (5,954,400), 69.71 per cent. were enrolled in the public schools, and of the negro school population (2,912,910), 51.89 per cent.