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70sEraVet

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2. The 'luxury' of segregation

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:02 AM

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These states spent a lot of money to maintain segregation, money that they really couldn't afford. Here is a great example:

Thus began a complex and contentious four-year legal battle, which involved multiple courts at various levels, as well as $2.5 million in legislative appropriations in a last-ditch attempt by the state to create and fund a two-room law school specifically for Black students.

(same article)

How much better would the school systems have been in Jim Crow states, if they didn't insist on building and staffing TWO separate educational systems (the two systems were never 'equal', but an expense none the less)?

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