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Throughout the South black schools were particularly hard hit by the Depression. Underfunded by white school boards in prosperous times, black schools had their budgets virtually eliminated when hard times came. In his Special Problems of Negro Education (1939) the noted African American scholar Doxey A. Wilkerson included this description of a black school in east Texas:
The building was a crude box shack built by. the Negroes out of old slabs and scrap lumber. Windows and doors were badly broken. The floor was in such condition that one had to walk carefully to keep from going through cracks and weak boards. Daylight was easily visible through walls, floors, and roof The building was used for both church and school. Its only equipment consisted of a few rough hewn seats, an old stove brought from a junk pile, a crude homemade...
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