SURVEY OF THE PROBLEM Segregation has long been imposed upon Negroes in the social, economic, political and industrial worlds of the South and of much of the North. Is it to be recommended to education? There is difference of opinion in regard to this question, resulting in various means of education for Negroes. The South has segregated schools, the law of most Northern states authorizes mixed schools. Here and there may be found both types of schools. It is the purpose of this article to survey the problem from the various points of view taken today; to follow the history of Negro education in Cincinnati to its present status of equal opportunity and of voluntary segregation; and to report an experiment which was made to test the relative efficiencies of the segre-gated and mixed schools of Cincinnati in terms of the academic attainments of their pupils.

At present society may be divided roughly into three groups in its think-ing on this question. 1. Some white educators and many laymen accept segregation as a social necessity for the white race, opposing change. 2. Some white and some Negro thinkers consider segregation undemocratic in principle and oppose it. 3. Some Ne-