colored schools
Jim Crow education
Colored schools were racially segregated schools for Black children in the United States, mandated by law primarily in Southern states from the post-Civil War era until the mid-twentieth century.
These schools were nominally "separate but equal" under *Plessy v.
Ferguson* (1896), though in practice they received inferior funding, facilities, and materials.
The term appears in historical documents and discussions of segregation: The colored school had no library and used hand-me-down textbooks from the white school.
The Supreme Court's 1954 *Brown v.
Board of Education* decision declared such segregation unconstitutional.
- racial segregationSeparation by ethnic background
- segregationForced separation by group
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- Plessy v FergusonRuling permitting segregation
integration · Brown v Board · NAACP · civil rights movement · civil rights · inequality · apartheid · discrimination · one-room · underfunded · African American · busing · textbooks · teachers · Deep South · South · 1950s · abolition
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, separate but equal, segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only
- school segregationdesegregation, de facto segregation, Brown v. Board, separate but equal, Plessy v. Ferguson
- Southern HistoryDeep South, Antebellum, Old South, Dixie, Confederate