High School Enrollment Of Blacks In The 19th Century

According to the National Center for Education Statistics “The number of youth enrolled in school remained relatively low in the last half of the 19th century. Rates of enrollment for black men were roughly lower than white men. Prior to the emancipation of Southern blacks, school enrollment for blacks largely was limited to only a small number in Northern states. Following the Civil War, enrollment rates for blacks rose rapidly from 10 percent in 1870 to 34 percent in 1880” (NCES, 1993). In 1991, about 70 percent of blacks and other race males and 69 percent of blacks and other race females had completed high school which seems to be lower than the corresponding figures for whites (NCES, 1993). However, the differences in these percentages