4. White Until September 1962 white students in Mississippi had graduate and professional schools and Negro students did not. 51/ Negro Jackson State College The Division of Graduate Studie offers a Master of Science in Education degree for principal and supervisors only. Doctor of Philosophy degree E-0-51 Public Education in Mississippi: Reports of Advisory Study Groups (Volume II) Institutions of Higher 1 5. Mississippi's public institutions of higher learning granted more degrees and in a greater variety of fields in 1959-61 to white students than to Negro students. Bachelors 52/ Fields of 43 12 THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI HAS ALWAYS RECOGNIZED THAT THE 1. Officers of the State Government have recognized that the public educational facilities provided for Negroes were inferior to those provided for whites. a. Governor Vardaman (1907). Here is what I promised to do. I said if you elect me Governor and elect a legislature in sympathy with me that I would submit to the people of Mississippi an amendment to the State Constitution which would control the distribution of a public school fund so as to stop the useless expenditure in the black counties. In my Let's see whether I kept my promise. inaugural address, I devoted the greater part of it to that. The only time I ever got a chance to urge against Negro education as I wanted to without impairing the white schools was when a legislature passed a bill providing money to that Negro school in Holly Springs which was sent to me signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. Did I sign it? I killed the bill and I killed the 53/ school.. No. b. Governor Wright (1950). We face a serious problem in the matter of providing comparable educational opportunities for the two races in our State. As a matter of fact, this problem is composed of several phases. One of them deals with salary adjustments. A plan was proposed and submitted to the teachers this past summer. They voted it down. It is now necessary 9-0-50 52/ 531 Regro Missippi State College for Offers 5 Bachelor degrees in 19 fields Delta State College Offers Bachelor degrees in 10 fields 4. White Until September 1962 white students in Mississippi had graduate and professional schools and Negro students did not. 51/ Negro Jackson State College The Division of Graduate Studi offers a Master of Science in Education degree for principala and supervisors only. Doctor of Philosophy degree Mississippi Southern College Graduate School offers: a. Master's degree in 12 Doctor of Philosophy and 8-0-31 Public Education in Mis Reports of 5. Mississippi's public institutions of higher learning granted more degrees and in a greater variety of fields in 1959-61 to white students than to Negro students. 52/ THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI HAS ALWAYS RECOGNIZED THAT THE 1. Officers of the State Government have recognized that the public educational facilities provided for Negroes were inferior to those provided for whites. Here is what I promised to do. I said if you elect me Governor and elect a legislature in sympathy with me that I would submit to the people of Mississippi an amendment to the State Constitution which would control the distribution of a public school fund so as to stop the useless expenditure in the black counties. In my Let's see whether I kept my promise. inaugural address, I devoted the greater part of it to that. The only time I ever got a chance to urge against Negro education as I wanted to without impairing the white schools was when a legislature passed a bill providing money to that Negro school in Holly Springs which was sent to me signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. Did I sign it? No. I killed the bill and I killed the school... 531 b. Governor Wright (1950). We face a serious problem in the matter of providing comparable educational opportunities for the two races in our State. As a matter of fact, this problem is composed of several phases. One of them deals with salary adjustments. A plan was proposed and submitted to the teachers this past summer. They voted it down. It is now necessary 521 9-0-50 Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees 531 E-0-78 Speech of Governor Vardaman of Mississippi White Mississippi State College for Women Offers 5 Bachelor degrees in 19 fields Delta State College Offers Bachelor degrees in 10 fields 4. White Negro Until September 1962 white students in Mississippi had graduate and professional schools and Negro students did not. 517 Negro Jackson State College The Division of Graduate Studies offers a Master of Science in Education degree for principals and supervisors only. Doctor of Philosophy degree Advisory Study Groups (Volume II) Institutions of Higher |