WOMEN OF DISTINCTION
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An estimate of the extent of the educational work which is being accomplished by our women can be drawn from the following statistics, issued by the Commissioner of Education for 1890-'91, of the common schools in those States containing the highest per cent. of colored teachers:
| States. | Pupils Enrolled in the Common Schools. | Teachers, | Colored. |
| COLORED. | MALE. | FEMALE. | |
| Alabama | 118,712 | 1,496 | 812 |
| Arkansas | 63,830 | 862 | 270 |
| Delaware | 5,602 | 54 | 45 |
| District of Columbia | 14,147 | 40 | 225 |
| Florida* | 37,342 | 403 | 282 |
| Georgia* | 150,702 | 1,290 | 1,208 |
| Kentucky | 54,125 | 586 | 650 |
| Louisiana | 49,671 | 500 | 301 |
| Maryland | 34,796 | 217 | 491 |
| Mississippi | 173,378 | 1,835 | 1,377 |
| Missouri* | 34,622 | 304 | 418 |
| North Carolina | 115,812 | 1,370 | 988 |
| South Carolina | 116,535 | 958 | 664 |
| Tennessee | 105,458 | 992 | 753 |
| Texas | 104,512 | 1,639 | 914 |
| Virginia | 123,579 | 928 | 1,080 |
| West Virginia | 6,428 | 93 | 91 |
| Total | 1,309,251 | 13,567 | 10,497 |
- Teachers in Florida, Georgia and Missouri classified according to U. S. census.
Out of the total 24,064 teachers in the common schools of these States, as given in the preceding table, 43 per cent., in round numbers, or about one-half of the entire teaching force, are women, and then we have not taken into account the private and denominational schools,
