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Separate Is Not Equal
Separate but equal, 1880’s through the 1960’s. 
 
 Education: The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted 
 
 separately. Florida
 
 Parks: It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the 
 
 city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons...and unlawful for any white 
 
 person to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the use and benefit of 
 
 colored persons. Georgia
 
 Amateur Baseball: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on 
 
 any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the 
 
 Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play 
 
 baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground 
 
 devoted to the white race. Georgia
 
 Restaurants: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in 
 
 the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such 
 
 white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from 
 
 the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from 
 
 the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama
 
 Available to whites only.
 
 The Blind: The board of trustees shall...maintain a separate building...on separate ground for the 
 
 admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race. Louisiana
 
 Equality promotion:  Any person...who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating 
 
 printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public acceptance or 
 
 general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of 
 
 intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject 
 
 to fine or not exceeding five hundred (500.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six 
 
 (6) months or both. Mississippi
 
 
 Burial: The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon 
 
 ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons. Georgia
 
 Unwilling to change.
 
 Textbooks: Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall 
 
 be continued to be used by the race first using them. North Carolina
 
 
 Entrances: There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained
 
 
 by the state for the treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared. Mississippi
 
 Questionable laws that segregate.
 
 Under the Jim Crow laws.
 
 All must abide by. 
 
 Lunch Counters: No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to passengers at 
 
 station restaurants or station eating houses, in times limited by common carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, or at the same table , or at the same counter. South Carolina
 
 
 For white use only.
 
 Separate but equal.
 
 Clean, fresh, new, nice, safe.
 
 Won’t do any harm
 
 Segregation is best
 
 We have everything
 
 
 For colored only.
 
 Separate but equal.
 
 Dirty, broken, old.
 
 Always in trouble
 
 End segregation now
 
 We are not equal
 
 .    
 Separate but not equal. Everything that was designated to whites had an opposite and unequal version available to the colored. Never mixing. Equal, in mind, to one who believes that whites are superior to all other races. A time where all are full of hate; why? People are people, white is black.

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