Alabama votes to keep Jim Crow

In the November 2 election, Alabamians were asked to vote on whether to remove Jim Crow language from their state constitution, and they said no. They preferred to keep language that says “Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race.” Apparently, the amendment would also have removed a clause that said that children did not have the right to public (i.e. state-funded) education, and this is what presumably caused the amendment to fail, because some politician mislead state residents into believing that removing the clause might result in tax increases.