The Origin and Development of the Negro Visiting Teacher in Alabama: A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science

Tuskegee, Al: Tuskegee Institute, 1949. Very good.. vi,66pp. carbon copy typescript, printed on rectos only. Contemporary red buckram, gilt spine titles. Minor soiling and edge wear to boards, corners bumped. An official copy of Ruth Boatwright's Tuskegee Institute Masters thesis, signed by her advisor Robert Reid and two Tuskegee administrators, Dean Alonzo Davis and the Chairman of the Graduate Committee, R.W. Brown. As usual, the thesis includes an introduction, literature review, background on the topic, and a summary with findings. At the outset of the summary, Boatwright states that her thesis was intended "to trace the development of visiting teacher services in the United States and in the state of Alabama, so that the findings might be of benefit to persons seeking to make possible the expansion of Negro visiting teacher services in Alabama for neglected Negro boys and girls." Among the reasonable findings Boatwright made include that "Negro visiting teachers get better results in dealing with Negro boys and girls than white visiting teachers" and "There are too few Negro visiting teachers in Alabama (one worker for every 3,000 children)." The text is supplemented throughout with maps, tables, and charts; among the supplemental material are questionnaires employed by Boatwright in her research." The work was later privately printed by the author through Vantage Press, in 1975. OCLC records just one other copy of Boatwright's original thesis, retained by Tuskegee, and the University of Alabama holds a copy.