House bill to remove segregation language--WV

[davidinalameda]

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/Other%20News/2005030114

Delegates Sharon Spencer and Charlene Marshall had similar thoughts Tuesday in the House Education Committee when the panel unanimously agreed to recommend the Legislature wipe out the last vestiges of segregationist language left in West Virginia’s Constitution.

Spencer, D-Kanawha, and Marshall, D-Monongalia, both grew up in the area of segregated schools. They were surprised any such language remained in state law.

The bill (HB2466) takes out language allowing school districts to “employ one Negro assistant superintendent” if they employed 50 or more “Negro teachers.” It also removes language relating to the “Negro Board of Education.”