MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state panel has proposed striking segregationist language from Alabama’s 1901 constitution that mandates separate schools for “white and colored children.”The Anniston Star reports the Alabama Constitutional Review Commission voted 9-7 Monday to propose that Section 256 of the document instead say the state will maintain a system of public schools and to drop references to segregation.
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