The Negro Common School

Atlanta: University Press, 1901. First Edition. Soft cover. Poor. Green paper wraps over side stapled textblock. Octavo. [v] 120pp. Former Board of Education Library copy. text clean and unmarked. Covers loose with backstrap missing. Now stabilized in a mylar sleeve. A report of a social study and conference held at Atlanta University on May 28th, 1901. The work contains statistical tables illustrating enrollment, literacy, teacher pay and training, and comparative data by county/region; it is a significant primary source for the history of Black education and social reform at the turn of the century.