ney[115]
which was invested in public school property for Negroes. The District
of Columbia had $135.30 invested for every Negro child of school age
and Missouri had $50 for each Negro child. Oklahoma and West Virginia
ranked next to Missouri, each having $26.00 invested for every Negro
child of school age. Missouri ranked first among the States in the
proportion of the total school investment devoted to the education of
the Negro child. Missouri had 96 per cent as much invested for each
Negro child as was invested for each white child while the District of
Columbia had only 74 per cent as much invested in Negro school
property[116] as it had invested in white school property for every
child of school age. If we leave out the District of Columbia, which
is not comparable with a State, Missouri stood at the head of the
States, in which separate schools were maintained for Negro children,
in the annual expenditure for every child of school age. Missouri
spent $12.13 for every Negro child[117] of school age enumerated. This
was more than was spent by 12 of the southern States for every white
child enrolled. Missouri's nearest rivals, Oklahoma and West Virginia,
spent $11.16 and $10.38 for every Negro child respectively. As the
result of her excellent school system, Missouri had, according to the
census of 1910, a smaller proportion of her population illiterate[118]
than did any of the other ex-slave States.

HENRY SULLIVAN WILLIAMS

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This dissertation was in 1917 submitted to the Faculty of the
Graduate School of Arts and Literature of the University of Chicago,
in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts by Henry S. Williams.

The following original sources were used in the preparation of this
manuscript: _Reports of Superintendent of the Public Schools of the
State of Missouri_, 1866-1917; Session Laws of the State of Missouri,
1866-1913; _Reports_ of the U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1870-1916;
U.S. _Census Reports_, 1860-1910; _The Missouri Republican_,
1866-1870; _Journal of Education_, Vols. I and II (St. Louis,
Missouri, 1879); _Revised Statutes of Missouri_, 1879-1909;
_Proceedings and Occasional Papers of the Slater Fund_ (Baltimore,
Maryland); _Missouri Historical Society Collections_, Vols. II and
III; Asa E. Martin, _Our Negro Population_ (Kansas City, Missouri,
1913); N.H. Parker, _Missouri as it is in 1867_ (Philadelphia, 1867);
_Am. Annua