DREAM BIG #4 July 2015 | Page 32

By Elizabeth, Laressa, William

We are drawing about the separate but equal law. In 1896, the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the court ruled that it was not illegal to be separate as long as they are equal but the states didn't change anything. The schools still stayed unequal.

Many colored schools didn't have a lunch hall or a gym and they had to stay in a small building with k-12th grade students. We learned a lot from this experience.

Acrylic paint & painted on words

Phillipsburg High School continued

Segregated Schools