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1970 2601 (1970)

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ALABAMA LAWS
and Joint Resolutions
SPECIAL SESSION, 1970
Act No. I       S. 1-Clark, Givhan, Stone, Gilmore, O'Bannon,
Engel, McCarley, Leonard, Giles, Pierce,
Bailes, Branyon, Oden, Torbert, Morrow,
Radney, Nabors, Childs, Carr, Folsom,
Lolley, Adams, Cooper, Hawkins,
Jackson, Vacca, Pelham, Skidmore,
Albea, Lindsey, Harris, Turner,
Dominick, Goodwyn, McDermott.
AN ACT
TO PREVENT DISCRIMINATION ON ACCOUNT OF RACE, COL-
OR CREED OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN CONNECTION WITH THE
EDUCATION OF THE CHILDREN OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of Alabamta:
Section 1. No person shall be refused admission into or be
excluded from any public school in the State of Alabama on
account of race, creed, color or national origin.
Section 2. No student shall be assigned or Lompelled to
attend any school on account of race, creed, color or national
origin, or for the purpose of achieving equality in attendance or
increased attendance or reduced attendance, at any school, of
persons of one or more particular races, creeds, colors or
national origins; and no school district, school zone or attendance
unit, by Whatever name known, shall be established, re-organized
or maintained for any such purpose, provided that nothing
contained in this section shall prevent the assignment of a pupil
in the manner requested or authorized by his parents or
guardian, and further provided that nothing in this section shall
be deemed to affect, in any way, the right of a religious or
denominational educational institution to select its pupils ex-
clusively or primarily from members of such religion or de-
nomination or from giving preference to such selection to such
members or to make such e leetion to its pupils as is calculated
to promote the religious principle for which it is established.
Section 3. The provisions of this Act are severable. If
any part of the Act is declared invalid or unconstitutional, such
declaration shall not affect the part which remains.
Section 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.

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