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Why were schools segregated?

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Schools were segregated in the mid to late 1800s/early to mid 1900s becauase, well almost everything was segregated. laws were passed that whites had to be separated [segregated] from blacks. The supreme court cas in 1896, plessy v. fergusib was a significant case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation by ruling that separate facilties for different races were legal, as long as those facilties were equal to one another. this case prvided a legal justification for racial segregation for nearly 60 years until it was overturned by the case Brown v. Board of education in 1954. ~hope that helps.~ krista xx

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Relevant answers:

What is a segregated schools?
Racial Segregated schools where where people separated black people from white and kept them in different school.
When were schools no longer segregated?
Brown vs. Board of education
Is there still places with segregated schools?
Yes, East Ramapo in New York. If you are Jewish you go to paid outside schools. If black or spanish, you go to regular public school. If white, you move or homeschool.
What does it mean to have segregated schools?
Segregated schools can be separated by religion, gender. Like if you have catholic schools. Only catholics go. Or separated by gender like an all boys/girls school.
What does segregated schools mean?
It means that only whites can go to that school.