Mississippi · 1922
The segregated school framework
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Separate schools shall be maintained for children of the white and colored races.
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Mississippi. School Laws of the State of Mississippi. Compiled by W. F. Bond, State Superintendent of Education. Jackson: The Issue Print, 1922.
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Separate schools shall be maintained for children of the white and colored races.
The 1922 school-law compilation printed the constitutional requirement for separate white and colored schools.
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Did the school law name Chinese children?
Not in this passage. It requires separate schools for white and colored children and says nothing about who counts as which. That silence is what the litigation was about.