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Despite the school-building program blacks in the South had either no schools or inadequate schools. The school-building program of the 1920s served only a fourth of all black students. Most of the schools built, moreover, were elementary schools; high-school education for blacks remained virtually nonexistent. Nearly half of all black students were in the first two grades of elementary school. Only 19 percent of blacks aged fourteen to seventeen were enrolled in high school, compared to 55 percent of all white students. In some states, such as Mississippi, nearly nine times as many white students attended high school as did black students — despite the fact that black teenagers constituted the majority of the secondary-school-age population in that state. In 230 southern counties African Americans were 12.5 percent or more of the total population; yet there were no high schools. In 195 other counties, there were elementary schools but no...
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