C. G. WOODSON

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This study was undertaken at the suggestion of President John W.
Davis, of The West Virginia Collegiate Institute. He appointed a
committee to collect the facts bearing on the early efforts of workers
among the Negroes in West Virginia. The members of this committee were
C. G. Woodson, D. A. Lane, A. A. Taylor, S. H. Guss, C. E. Jones, Mary
E. Eubank, J. S. Price, F. A. Parker, and W. F. Savoy.

At the first meeting of the committee, C. G. Woodson was chosen
Chairman and at his suggestion the following questionnaire was drawn
up and sent out:

A QUESTIONNAIRE ON NEGRO EDUCATION IN WEST VIRGINIA

Place........................

1. When was a Negro school first opened in your district?

2. What was the enrollment?

3. Who was the first teacher?

4. Was he well prepared?

5. How long did he serve?

6. Were his methods up-to-date or antiquated?

7. Did he succeed or fail?

8. Who were the useful patrons supporting the school?

9. What was the method of securing certificates?

10. What was the method of hiring teachers?

11. What was the method of paying teachers, that is, did the
school district pay promptly or was it necessary to discount
their drafts or wait a long period to be paid? 12. Did the
community own the school property or was the school taught in a
private home or in a church?

13. What has been the progress or development of the school?

14. What is its present condition?

15. What persons in your community can give additional facts on
Negro education?

Name........................

From the distribution of these questionnaires there were obtained the
salient facts of the early history of the pioneer education among
Negroes in the State. A number of names of other persons in a position
to give additional information were returned with the questionnaires.
These were promptly used wherever the information needed could not be
supplied from any other source. Members of the committee, moreover,
visited persons in various parts and interviewed them to obtain facts
not otherwise available. Wherever it was possible, the investigators
consulted the available records of the State and county. In this way,
however, only meager information could be obtained.

The most reliable sources we