MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — What the Alabama Constitution says on school segregation:

From 1901 to 1956: “The legislature shall establish, organize, and maintain a liberal system of public schools throughout the state for the benefit of the children thereof between the ages of seven and twenty-one years. … Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race.”