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Montgomery, Alabama, Code on Segregation

Primary source: Code of the City of Montgomery, Alabama, 1952.
Caption: This piece of municipal legislation mandates the separation of races on city bus lines.

Sec. 10. Separation of races—Required.

Every person operating a bus line the in the city shall provide equal but separate accommodations for white people and Negroes on his buses, by requiring the employees in charge thereof to assign passengers seats on the vehicles under their charge in such manner as to separate the white from the Negroes, where there are both white and Negroes on the same car. . . .

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Code of the City of Montgomery, Alabama (Charlottesville: Michie City Publishing, 1952).



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