Talk:Thibodaux High School

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Category:Historically segregated white schools in the United States

How come? Nothing in the article says so. In 2015-16, the school was 37% black, the city 34%. Rhadow (talk) 23:21, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Probably because it was founded before desegregation. Lizard (talk) 23:53, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Rhadow: Looks like the school has existed since at least 1913. Over 40 years prior to Brown v. Board, so Jim Crow laws were still in effect. Lizard (talk) 00:05, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lizard the Wizard -- By that logic, the preponderance of schools existing in 1954 should be in the category, as well as many today, reflections of their communities (naturally or artificially by school district gerrymandering). Unless there is a reliable source to identify each member of the category, the category is meaningless. Rhadow (talk) 12:12, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Crow laws required most southern state (including Louisiana) to segregate their schools by law. I'm assuming this is the rationale that WhisperToMe used when he added the category. Lizard (talk) 14:54, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yep! Under Southern laws they were segregated, and had to be. @Rhadow: I can add a source: the dissolution of the black high school, C.M. Washington High School. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:55, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]