Southern states enforced segregation while ignoring Plessy’s equality requirement.

Evidence

Public education was a particular concern. The Southern states had eagerly accepted Plessy’s invitation to institute racial separation, requiring white and black students to attend separate schools, but had ignored Plessy’s requirement of equality. In the 1920s, for example, Georgia spent eight times as much on white students as it did on African American students, and Mississippi five times as much. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2959

Categorization

• DEFINE: Documents the funding gap that laid bare the emptiness of ‘separate but equal.’
• CANDY: Georgia spent eight times as much on white students as on Black students in the 1920s.