User talk:Lmmsmith

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Specifics of terminology
Hi! I saw this edit summary where it states: "Less inflammatory terminology--changed "colored school children" to "non-white school children."

In the Houston area specifically only children with black African ancestry were assigned to black schools or "colored schools". At least in Houston ISD Hispanic children were counted as white, so they attended white schools, and Asian kids attended white schools. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:17, 4 April 2020 (UTC)