Accounting for Racial Differences in School Attendance in the American South, 1900: The Role of Separate-But-Equal / Robert A. Margo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margo, Robert A.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2242.

NBER working paper series no. w2242

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American children--Education.

African American children.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Accounting for Racial Differences in School Attendance in the American South, 1900

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1987.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1987.

Summary:

Everyone knows that public school officials in the American South violated the Supreme Court's separate-but-equal decision. But did the violations matter? Yes, enforcement of separate-but-equal would have narrowed racial differences in school attendance in the early twentieth century South. But separate-but-equal was not enough. Black children still would have attended school less often than white children because black parents were poorer and less literate than white parents.

Notes:

Print version record

May 1987.