This last group includes not only the great national schools, such as Tuskegee and Hampton, but small private enterprises supported chiefly by irregular donations.
These private and independent schools owned property valued at $28,496,946 and had an income of over $3,000,000.

State and Federal appropriations at the date of the report reached about $963,000.
[Footnote 1.

_Negro Education_, Bureau of Education Bulletins 38 and 39 (1916).

This work supersedes all previous collections of facts upon negro education.] During the first years after the downfall of the Reconstruction governments the negro received a fair proportion of the pittance devoted to public schools.

Governor Vance of North Carolina, in recommending in 1877 an appropriation to the University for a "professorship for the purpose of instructing in the theory and art of teaching" went on to state that "a school of similar character should be established for the education of colored teachers, the want of which is more deeply felt by the black race even than the white....