[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.

[59] _Report of Supt. of Schools_, 1875, p. 77.

[60] _Reg. Session, 28th Gen. a.s.sembly_, p. 349.

[61] _Ency. of History of St. Louis_, Vol. IV, p. 2076.

[62] _14th Ann. Report of Bd. of Dir. of St. Louis Pub. Schools_, 1868, pp. 63 and 67.

[63] _Report of Commissioner of Education_, 1871, p. 264.

[64] _Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools_, 1876.

[65] _Ibid._, 1873, pp. 263 and 268.

[66] _Report of Commissioner of Education_, 1871.

[67] _Ibid._, 1871.

[68] _Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools_, 1873, p. 253-303.

[69] _Ibid._, 1876.

[70] _Ibid._, 1873, p. 263-268.

[71] _Ibid._, 1873, pp. 263-268.

[72] _8th Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools_, 1874, p. 165.

[73] _Report of Commissioner of Education_, 1870, p. 204.

[74] _44th Ann. Catalog of Lincoln Inst.i.tute_, p. 6.

[75] _4th Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools_, 1870, p. 36.

[76] _Adj. Session 25th Gen. a.s.sembly_, 1870, p. 136.

[77] This fact can be verified by studying abstracts from the State Superintendents' reports for this period. These abstracts are found in the Reports of the Commissioner of Education for this period.

[78] _Ann. Cyclopedias_ for 1870-75. Art. Missouri.

[79] _Ibid._, 1871, p. 516.

[80] _9th Ann. Report Supt. of Schools_, 1874, p. 7.

[81] _9th Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools_, p. 6.

[82] _Ibid._

[83] Art. II, Sec. 3.

[84] Art. XI, Sec. 3.

[85] _Report of Commissioners of Education_, 1880, p. 184.

[86] _Ibid._

[87] See page 26.

[88] _Report of Supt. of Schools_, 1877, p. 18.

[89] _Rev. Statutes of Mo. 1879_, Vol. II, p. 1861.

[90] In this period a very noteworthy step was taken by the Negro teachers. In 1878 they organized a State teachers' a.s.sociation. In that year its meeting was held in Columbia, Missouri, and a number of professors in the State University took an active part. The next year the a.s.sociation met in Jefferson City. Since that time, the meeting of the a.s.sociation has become an annual affair.

[91] DuBois, _Negro Common School_, p. 61.

[92] _Rev. Statutes of Mo._, 1889, p. 2271.

[93] _Ibid._, 1909, p. 790.

[94] DuBois, _Negro Common School_, p. 61.

[95] _Ibid._

[96] _Report of Supt. of Schools_, 1910, p. 69.

[97] _Report St. Louis Board of Education_, 1916, p. 302.

[98] _Ibid._, p. 350.

[99] _Ibid._, p. 308.

[100] Martin, _op. cit._