SR_DPI_DNE_Special_Subject_File_B1F15_Equalization_Education_Opportunities_034

EQUALIZATION OF TEACHERS' SALARIES IN NORTH CAROLINA

In June, 1934, Governor J.C.B. Khringhaus appointed a Comission of fifty-four
persons and a Committee of fifty consultants to be known as the "Governor's
Commission for the Study of Problems in the Education of Negroes in North Carolina".
Half of these persons were white and half were Negroes. The Commission made the
Study and presented its completed Report to the Governor on November 26, 1934.
This Study included eight points in the public school program. These were prepared
upon the request of the Governor by members of the Negro Committee Groups and are
as follows:

1. Consolidation and transportation fo 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 ninety-six pages are the following:
#1. That the differentials in teachers' salaries between white and Negro
teachers, now in existance 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 of
Negro teachers be made equal to those of white teachers.