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Sat 19 Jun, 2004 07:07 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Louisiana, which like many Southern states still has racial-separation laws on its books, moved this week to repeal measures enshrining segregated schools 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed them. In all, Louisiana found more than 20 "Jim Crow" laws still on its books, mostly relating to schools, Louisiana, however, is not alone. Many southern U.S. states still have segregation laws in place, despite the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. In Alabama, for example, the state constitution still allows parents to choose whether they want their children to attend segregated schools, "to avoid confusion and disorder." Other segregation laws linger in Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia, according to the Jim Crow Study Group. Lawmakers in Missouri this year passed a bill to remove a reference to the "State Training School For Negro Girls."
In the North, while the laws of segregation, for the most part don't exist, many, many schools are still segregated because of the constant flux of neighborhoods for a variety of reasons, one of the most important ones, being economic.
Feh. Every state in the Union still has old laws on the books. When their laws are overturned by the State or Federal Suprmem Courts the laws just sit there invalid.
MA still has colonial era laws that limit public offfice holders to being Protastants and that require the mayor of each town to call out their local militia for annual drills on the town green. Nobody follows them though. *shrugs*
Re: What did you learn in school today Bubba?
dyslexia wrote:WASHINGTON (Reuters)
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Lawmakers in Missouri this year passed a bill to remove a reference to the "State Training School For Negro Girls."
Actually, this bill hasn't passed the Missouri House of Representatives yet:
the 'Proposed Effective Date' is 08/28/2004, but neither a hearing is scheduled nor is the bill on the actual calendar
HB1623 - Removes outdated reference to the State Training School for Negro Girls.
fishin' wrote:Feh. Every state in the Union still has old laws on the books. When their laws are overturned by the State or Federal Suprmem Courts the laws just sit there invalid.
MA still has colonial era laws that limit public offfice holders to being Protastants and that require the mayor of each town to call out their local militia for annual drills on the town green. Nobody follows them though. *shrugs*
while I accept that many antiquated laws remain on the books, I also opine that in the "old south" many of the "Jim Crow" laws are kept as symbolic reminders of the "good ole days"
Save your Confederate money, boys; the south shall rise again.
A statement I heard quite often while growing up.
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