Negroes complain that the authorities are building white schools in communities where the negro population is five times as great. When they first sought to establish these consolidated schools, there was a provision that every one must pay taxes to support them. Negroes who were required to pay large taxes refused because they were denied the benefits of the schools. A law was passed with the provision that the majority of qualified electors in a county supervisor's district might secure one of these schools on petition to the Board of Supervisors and with the understanding that they would pay taxes. But negroes are not qualified electors and consequently have no schools. In Liberty Grove the white school goes to the twelfth grade, with courses also in music. Automobiles bring the children to school and carry them back. The negro school in the same community has only one teacher getting $25 per month and teaching over 200 children. There are two large negro denominational schools, Jackson College and Campbell College which serve to supplement the public schools provided by the city.] [Footnote 23: Jones, _Negro Education_, vol. II, pp. 14, 15, Bulletin, 1916, No. 30 of the United States Bureau of Education.] [Footnote 24: Work and Johnson, _Report on the Migration during the World War_.] [Footnote 25: _Montgomery Advertiser._] [Footnote 26: Annual Report of the Prison Inspector of Alabama, 1914.] [Footnote 27: Report of the Sheriff of Jefferson County, Alabama, 1917.] [Footnote 28: Work and Johnson, _Report on the Migration during the World War_.] [Footnote 29: Mr. Charles S. Johnson reports the following from Mississippi: "The police of most of the cities are rough and indiscriminate in their treatment of negroes. At the depot during the summer, on several occasions, negro porters were severely beaten by policemen for trivial reasons. This, it was said, started a stream of young men that cleaned the town of porters. "Fee constables made their living from arresting negroes, indiscriminately, on trivial charges. A white man, to whom a prominent negro physician had gone for advice on a case concerning his arrest on a charge of having no lights on his automobile, said, 'If I were a negro, I would rather appear before a Russian court than come before a court here for trial.'"] [Footnote 30: Work and Johnson, _Report on the Migration during the World War_.] [Footnote 31: Work and Johnson, _Report on the Migration during the World War_.] CHAPTER III STIMULATION OF THE MOVEMENT