The Law of Segregation

The Law of Segregation. . , It shall be unlawful for a negro and a white person to play together or in company with each other in the city in any game of cards, dice, dominoes or checkers. , Montgomery City Code, C. 20 § 28 (1952) , If both white and colored people are accommodated or employed, separate toilet facilities shall be provided for each race. , Montgomery City Code, C. 35 § 16 (1952), The legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a negro, or descendant of a negro. , Constitution of Alabama, Art. 4, § 102 (1901), Every person operating a bus line in the city shall provide equal but separate accommodations for white people and negroes on his buses, by requiring the employees in charge thereof to assign passengers seats on the vehicles under their charge in such manner as to separate the white people from the negroes, where there are both white and negroes on the same car; provided, however, that negro nurses having in charge white children or sick or infirm white persons, may be assigned seats among white people. , Montgomery City Code, C. 6 § 10 (1952), It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored people are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. , Montgomery City Code, C. 10 § 14 (1952) , It shall be unlawful for a negro and a white person to play together or in a company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. , Montgomery City Code, C. 25 § 5 (1952) , It shall be unlawful for white and colored persons to play together...in any game of cards, dice, dominoes, checkers, pool, billiards, softball, basketball, baseball, football, golf, track and at swimming pools...or any other game or games or athletic contest...Any person, firm or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor against the City of Montgomery. , Montgomery City Ordinance 15-57 (1957) , [2nd marker], If any white person and any negro, or the descendant of any negro intermarry, or live in adultery or fornication with each other, each of them shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than seven years. Alabama Code, Title 14 § 360 (1940), It shall be unlawful for white and colored persons to enter upon, visit, use or in any way occupy public parks or other public houses or public places, swimming pools, wading pools, beaches, lakes or ponds except those assigned to their respective races...Any person, firm, corporation or association violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor against the City of Montgomery, and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars, and imprisonment for not more than six months, one or both at the discretion of the City Recorder. , Montgomery City Ordinance 21-57 (1957), It shall be unlawful for any owner, operator or person in charge of any room, hall, theater, picture house, auditorium, yard, court, ball park, public park or other indoor or outdoor place to which both white persons and negroes are admitted, in the city, to cause, permit or allow therein or thereon any theatrical performance, picture exhibition, speech, educational or entertainment program or athletic contest of any kind whatsoever, unless such place has entrances, exits and seating or standing sections set aside for and assigned to the use of white persons, and other entrances, exits and seating or standing sections set aside for and assigned to the use of negroes, by well defined physical barriers, and unless the members of each race are effectively restricted and confined to the sections set aside for and assigned to the use of such race. , Montgomery City Code, C. 34 § 5 (1952), All persons who sell or otherwise dispose of tickets, coupons, or cards for admission to any place or activity mentioned in the preceding section, in the city shall have separate places for the sale of tickets, coupons or cards, to white and colored persons, and shall require white and colored persons to form separate lines or groups when assembled for the purpose of procuring such tickets, coupons or cards. , Montgomery City Code, C. 34 § 6 (1952)