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The secondary sources consulted follow: Lucian Carr, _American
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Missouri_ (Cincinnati, Ohio); S.B. Harding, _Life of George R. Smith_
(Sedalia, Missouri, 1904); W.E.B. DuBois, _The Negro Common School_
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Maryland, 1914); C.G. Woodson, _The Education of the Negro Prior to
1861_, (New York, 1915); _History of Calloway County_ (St. Louis,
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[2] Parker, N.H., _Missouri as it is in 1867_, p. 424.

[3] Woodson, C.G., _Education of the Negro Prior to 1861_, p. 159-168.

[4] _Missouri State Convention of 1865_, Art. IX.

[5] _Laws of State of Missouri_, Adjourned Session 23d General
Assembly, p. 177.

[6] _Laws of the State of Missouri_, _op. cit._, p. 191.

[7] _Ibid._, p. 173.

[8] Ira Divoll, see Schaff, _Hist. of City and County of St. Louis_,
Vol. I, p. 843; R.D. Shannon, see Davis, W.B., _Ill. Hist. of Mo._, p.
587.

[9] _Ibid._, p. 550.

[10] _Ann. Reports_ of Supt. of Pub. Schools, 1871-'72-'73-'74.

[11] _8th Ann. Report of Supt. of Pub. Schools_, 1874, p. 37.

[12] _7th Ann. Report of Supt. of Pub. Schools_, 1873, p. 250.

[13] _7th Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools_, 1873, p. 281.

[14] _Ibid._, p. 256.

[15] _Journal of Education_, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 5, St. Louis, 1869.

[16] _Report of Commissioner of Education_, 1870, p. 202.

[17] N. H. Parker, _Missouri as it is in 1865_, p. 53. _Op. cit._

[18] _Report of Commissioner of Ed._, 1871, p. 260.

[19] _Parker_, _op. cit._, p. 54.

[20] _1st Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools of Missouri_, 1867, p. 9.

[21] _27th Ann.