The final section of the report focused on education and recreation in DC. “Every September,” the report
stated, “the Superintendent of Schools makes two speeches. They are identical in content, but one is made to
Negro teachers and the other to white teachers.” This separation was enforced throughout all parts of the
public school system. Moreover, separate did not mean equal in the District’s schools, as Negro schools
received far less funding and had less qualified teachers and older facilities than their white counterparts.
Segregation also applied to after‐school programs, run by the recreation department, where the system was
so rigidly imposed that the city even named two annual champions (one white, one black) in marbles
tournaments.