Question

What happened as the number of public schools in the south began to grow?

Answer 1

Blacks and white were kept in seperate schools.

Answer 2

Schools began to grow in the South after the Reconstruction Period. Jim Crow laws implemented in the South, which separated the African American from whites. The laws legalized the segregation in the South, which allowed separated schools for African American and whites. During this period numbers of schools began to grow in the South, which kept the African American separated from the others.