Jim Crow Laws
...“The most complete system of racial segregation appears in the schools. In fact, the school policy regarding racial segregation is perhaps the most obvious index to the racial climate of a region. Seventeen southern states have separate school systems. In the northern states there is no policy of racial Segregation, but the residential segregation of the Negro population frequently achieves a corresponding racial separation,” (Johnson, pg 12.) The last sentence there is just as true today in the city of Los Angeles as it was 75 years ago in Boston: if children live in poor Uniracial neighborhoods, they will go to schools with low budgets and a vast disparity of minority students, they will not learn the same things or on the same levels of the children who go to public schools in the suburbs. The major difference then and now is the budgets these two types of schools: urban/black, suburban/white, can or will provide for their students. Let’s look at this table from 1935-36: Percentage of Negro Enrollment vs. Expenditure on Negro Student State % of Enrollment % of Expenditure Alabama….. 35.1 1.7 Arkansas…. 26.8 2.2 Florida……. 31.1 1.5 Georgia…… 38.3 0.5 Maryland…. 16.9 6.8 Missouri….. 5.8 5.1 North Carolina 30.9 3.5 Oklahoma… 7.7 8.8 South Carolina 48.5 0.4 On the same to...