[49] 27th Gen. Assemb., Adj. Sess., p. 168.
[50] 7th Ann. Report of Gen. Ass. Adj. Sess., p. 233. By reading the annual letters of the county superintendents the fact is brought out that most of the colored schools of that period were in the towns and cities. It was in the rural districts that the Negro suffered most.
[51] 8th Ann. Report of Supt. Of Schools, 1874, p. 165-219.
[52] Asa E. Martin, Our Negro Population, p. 165.
[53] 9th Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools, p. 90 to 136.
[54] Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools, 1867, p. 10.
[55] Ibid., 1872, p. 51.
[56] Ibid., 1875, p. 84.
[57] 2nd Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools, 1868, p. 94.
[58] Ibid., 1874, p. 185.