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Show School Children of Mississippi. The annual report of the superintendent superin-tendent of education in Mississippi shows the total enrollment of the schools for the year as 387,4S8 pupils, as against 359,546 for the session of two years ago, an increase of 27,942, and of this increase 15,978 were negro pupils, and 11,964 white pupils. Of the total enrollment 179,142 were whites and 208,346 were blacks, the latter forming about 56 per cent of the total school enrollment. The government gov-ernment census of 1900 credits the negro in Mississippi with forming 59.1 per cent of the total population |