Abstract

Separate educational facilities for Negro high school students 'exist by law in sixteen Southern states and the District of Columbia. In several other states-mid-Western and Easternan increasing number of high school pupils, whether they desire it or not, find themselves matriculated in all colored schools. Arguments for and against this practice have been more emotional than scientific. Hardly any attempts have been made to determine the influence of such practices upon students themselves who ordinarily should receive first consideration. If we are to judge the value of an institution by the variety and kinds of interests generated in pupils -which, incidentally, are frequently called fair criteria,-then, the interests engaged in by students in mixed and separate schools are of utmost importance. No attempt is made in this study to condone or oppose mixed or separate educational facilities for Negro pupils. The investigation attempts merely to present data revealed in a recent investigation and, in the conclusions drawn therefrom, adherents of both sides of this controversy may draw such inferences as they may desire.

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