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study included eight points in the public school progress, which were prepared by members
of the Negro Committee Groups.

1. Consolidation and transportation of small schools.
2. Standard high school facilities
3. Raising the average scholarship level of teachers.
4. Minimum eight months' terms for every school.
5. Adequate buildings and equipment.
6. Providing preparation for a more differentiated occupational life.
7. Professional offerings for Negro youth in institutions within the
State up to the limit which the State provides.
8. Teachers' salaries.

In the recommendations of that report of nintey-six printed pages are the following:

"1. That the differentials in teachers' salaries between white and
Negro teachers, now in existence in North Carolina, be reduced
approximately 50 percent in 1935.

2. That the remaining differentials after 1935 be eliminated as
rapidly as possible within a period of three to five years."

This was the first official recommendation in North Carolina that salaries for Negro
teachers be made equal to this of white teachers.

Since that time, the matter of equal salaries for white and Negro public school
teachers had been kept alive in North Carolina.

The personnel of 104 in the list of those who performed this service for Governor
Khringhaus, included such personalities as the Presidents of teh University of North
Carolina, Duke University, and other colleges for both races in the State, as well as
faculty members, principals and teachers of each race. The study helped to promote
progress in each of the other seven items studied as well as that of salaries.

Third- in 1937, the Legislature passed a resolution on March 10, authorizing
Governor Clyde R. Hoey to appoint a "Commission to Study Public Schools and Colleges
for Colored People in North Carolina," the members of the Commission to be represented
by two from the Senate and three from the House of Representatives. Governor Hoey
appointed these persons and the study was begun promptly. This study was completed
in 1938. The report and recommendations are included in a printed bulletin of sixty-
two pages.