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│ │ │ │ Income │
│ Number │ │ │ for │
│ of │ Counted │ │Current │ Value of
States │Schools │Attendance │Teachers │Expenses│ Property
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Total │ 153│ 17,299│ 828│$380,933│$2,305,054
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Baptist Local │ │ │ │ │
Conventions │ 110│ 11,250│ 474│ 181,914│ 821,295
African Methodist │ │ │ │ │
Episcopal │ 17│ 3,212│ 187│ 129,778│ 800,609
African Methodist │ │ │ │ │
Episcopal Zion │ 11│ 1,207│ 77│ 37,600│ 316,950
Colored Methodist │ │ │ │ │
Episcopal │ 9│ 1,313│ 72│ 25,991│ 328,200
Five Small Church │ │ │ │ │
Boards │ 6│ 317│ 18│ 5,650│ 38,000
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From this table it will be seen that there are 153 institutions
supported entirely by colored people; that they have over 17,000
students, 828 teachers, an annual income of $380,933, and property
valued nearly $2,500,000. These figures represent conservative
compilations by the United States Bureau of Education. Significant as
these facts are, however, they do not represent the sum total of the
conditions which the Negroes make for the maintenance of schools. They
contribute large sums annually to schools under white denominations, and
to independent schools.
_Colored Baptist Schools._—It is to be expected that the Baptist
denomination with its large membership should lead in the support of
schools.
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