The reports of the state Departments of Education, of the United States Bureau of Education, of the Conference for Education in the South, and of the Peabody, Slater, and Jeanes Funds should be consulted.

The two volumes on _Negro Education_, United States Bureau of Education Bulletins Nos.

38 and 39 (1916) are invaluable.

There are also histories of some of the state universities and of the church and private schools.
FICTION Some of the best historical material on the changing South is in the form of fiction.

A number of gifted writers have pictured limited fields with skill and truth.