[1] This dissertation was in 1917 submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature of the University of Chicago, in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts by Henry S. Williams.
The following original sources were used in the preparation of this manuscript: _Reports of Superintendent of the Public Schools of the State of Missouri_, 1866-1917; Session Laws of the State of Missouri, 1866-1913; _Reports_ of the U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1870-1916; U.S. _Census Reports_, 1860-1910; _The Missouri Republican_, 1866-1870; _Journal of Education_, Vols. I and II (St. Louis, Missouri, 1879); _Revised Statutes of Missouri_, 1879-1909; _Proceedings and Occasional Papers of the Slater Fund_ (Baltimore, Maryland); _Missouri Historical Society Collections_, Vols. II and III; Asa E. Martin, _Our Negro Population_ (Kansas City, Missouri, 1913); N.H. Parker, _Missouri as it is in 1867_ (Philadelphia, 1867); _Am. Annual Cyclopedia_, 1870-1877; _Annual Reports of the Board of Education of St. Louis_, 1867-1916; _Annual Reports of the Board of Education_, of Kansas City, 1870-1915.
The secondary sources consulted follow: Lucian Carr, _American Commonwealths, Missouri a Bone of Contention_ (Boston, 1894); C.R. Barnes, _Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri_ (St. Louis, 1889); W.B. Davis, and D.S. Durrie, _An Illustrated History of Missouri_ (Cincinnati, Ohio); S.B. Harding, _Life of George R. Smith_ (Sedalia, Missouri, 1904); W.E.B. DuBois, _The Negro Common School_ (Atlanta, Georgia); C.L. Butt, _History of Buchanan County_ (Chicago, 1915); H.A. Trexler, _Slavery in Missouri_, 1804-1865 (Baltimore, Maryland, 1914); C.G. Woodson, _The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861_, (New York, 1915); _History of Calloway County_ (St. Louis, 1884); _History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries, and Orange Counties_, _Missouri_ (Chicago, 1889); J.T. Shaff, _History of St. Louis City and County_ (Philadelphia, 1885); R.A. Campbell, _Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri_ (St. Louis, 1875); _Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis_ (New York, 1889); _Missouri Historical Review_, Vols. I, II, IV, VI, VII, and IX (Columbia, Missouri); _The Negro Year Book_ (Tuskegee, Alabama, 1917).