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944 An American Dilemma
TABLE 5
Years of School Completed, by Persons 2$ Years Old and Over, by Race,
FOR THE United States, Rural and Urban Areas: 1940
PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION
United States Urban Rural Nonfarm Rural Farm
Years Completed
Native
White Negro
Native
White Negro
Native
White Negro
Native
White Negro
Persons 25 years and
over 100.0 100,0 100.0 1 00.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
No school years com-
pleted 1.3 10.0 0.8 6.6 1.7 12.7 a.5 15.0
Grade School:
I to 4 years 6.1 31.3 3.7 ^3.7 7‘3 35.5 II.
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5 and 6 years 9.7 ai.5 7.5 21.3 10.8 21.4 14.6 21.9
7 and 8 years 36.0 19.8 33-6 24.8 36.1 16.5 42.7 11.7
High School:
1 to 3 years 17.3 8.S 18.7 ii,S 16.9 6.4 13.7 3.6
4 years 16.6 4.1 20.1 6.2 14.S 2.4 8.9 1.0
College:
I to 3 years 6.6 1.8 7.5 2.6 6.S 1.4 4.0 0.6
4 years and more 5.4 1.2 7.0 1.8 4.7 0.9 1.5 0.3
Not reported i.i 1.8 1.0 IS 1.4 2^.7 i.i 1.8
Median school years
completed 8.8 5.7 9.6 6.8 8.6 5.0 8.0 4.1
Sourct: Sixteenth Census cf the United States: 1940^ Population, Preliminary Release, Series P-10, No. 8
that of the native white population even in number of school years com-
pleted—disregarding the still more inferior quality of Negro education in
the South.
The situation is dynamic: education for Negroes is improving. The per-
centage of Negro children who remain in school beyond the fourth grade
rose from 18 in 1921 to 20 in 1936.^^ At a later point we shall note the
striking recent increase in high schools for Negroes. But Negro children
TABLE 6
Ratio of Negro to White Pupils in Public Schools by Grades
IN 18 Southern States; 1933-1934
Grade
Ratio of
Negro to White
Pupils Enrolled Grade
Ratio of
Negro to White
Pupils Enrolled
1 .631 8 .141
2 •396 9 .135
3 .360 10 .112
4 .318 11 .099
K .288 12 .091
6 .252 Post-Graduate
7 .200 High School .013
Kindergarten .087
Source: ^
Calculated from data in Doxey A. Wilkerson, Special Problems qf Negro EducatUm (1930) Dp.
t66-i68. Wilkerson takes his data from U.S. Office of Education. Biennial Survey cf Education in tM Umied
States: 1939-1934* Bulletin No. a (i93S)» PP* 56-57 and 96.
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