Of every five dollars spent for public education in the State of Georgia, the white schools get four dollars and the Negro one dollar; and even then the white public-school system, save in the cities, is bad and cries for reform.
Du Bois presents a stark statistical example of the severe racial disparity in educational funding in the Southern states.
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