Segregation Forever (2)

Last week I wrote about Section 256 of Alabama's still operative constitution, which provides for "separate schools for white and colored children." An alert Big Con reader points us also to Section 102 of that august charter:

Miscegenation laws.

The legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a negro, or descendant of a negro.

The law was annulled by Amendment 667, I'm not sure when, though I did find an article from 1998 about the NAACP campaigning for the amendment—so the state of Alabama found enlightenment on this particular issue some time at least since the 1990s, so kudos for that. But a similar effort to strike official school segregation from the books failed in 2004.

Let me repeat standard witticism for reflections upon matters such as these: old times there are not forgotten.

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