e. These "seperate, but equal" laws were passed for restaurants, in voting; but most improtantly, public education. (U.S. Court Cases 155)The author of Brown v. Board of Education describes the first three decades of the twentieth century as segregated, but never equal, especially in the school system. Althought state and local governments poured more and more money into the developement of schools, those schools established for black students recieved only a fraction of the funds. According to Tackach, in 1910 southern states spent $9.45 per white child each year. However, only $2.90 was spent to each black child. (Tackach 28) Then, by 1916 the expenses for white children raised almost a full dollar. Meanwhile, funds for black students lowered a cent. In The Soul of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois's study of African American education he states:"The Negro colleges, gurriedly founded, were inadequately equipped, illogically detributed, and varying efficiencey and grade; the normal high schools were doing little more than common-school work, and the common schools were training but a third of the childrean who ought to be in them, and training these too often poorly."(Tackach 27)The black schools were inferior to those of white schools in almost everyway. Most of the buildings that were used as black schools were never kept in suitable condition. Many lacked adequate heating systems and indoor plumbing. Classrooms of black students were frequently overcrowded. Teachers of black schools were paid a salary considerably less than thier colleagues in white schools. When it came to the daily curriculum, students in white schools were offered many more subjects, and were involved in many more extracurricular activities. Dr Hugh W. Speer, chairman of the University of Kansas City's department of elementary school testified during the Brown vs. The Board of Education cases that:"For example, if the colored childrean are denied the experi...
