The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-13
LAW TO SEGREGATE
RACES IS OFFERED
BY Mr.. WEATHERLY
Residents of Each Block
Must Be All White or
All COlOred
NO DISCUSSION AT
MEETING YESTERDAY
Commissioner Says He Introduced
Ordinance by Request-Not Pre-
pared to Pass on Merits of
Measure at Present

City Commissioner James Weatherly at
the meeting yesterday introduced an ordi-
nance providing for the seregation of
the races in Birmingham.
The ordinance would limit the residents
o. a block to white or colored people and
would prohibit colored and white people
living in the same city block. Servants
are excepted.
Mr.. Weatherly stated that he was not
prepared to pass on the merits of the
measure at this time, and introduced it by
request in order that the matter might be
discussed
The proposed ordinance was filed with
out discussion and is as follows:
AN ordinance to preserve good order
and provide for the general welfare.
BE it ordained by the board of COM
missioners of the city of Birmingham:
Section 1. Any parcel or subdivision of
land in the city of Birmingham, not ex-
ceeding 400 feet In length or breadth,
which may be bounded on all sides by
| streets, alleys or other public highways,
| shall be considered as a block within the
meaning of this ordinance, and all such
blocks in which the majority of persons
residing therein are white people shall be
known as a white block and all such
blocks in which the majority of persons
residing therein are negroes or negroes
and mulattoes. shall be known as col
ored block
Sec. 2. No white person shall reside in
any house or building hereafter con-
structed in any colored block In the city
of Birmingham.
"Sec. 3. No negro, mulatto or colored
person shall reside in any house or build
ing hereafter constructed in any white
biock in the city of Birmingham.
Sec. 4. The provisions of this ordinance
shall not prohibit domestic servants from
residing on the premises on which their
employers reside, and such servants shall
not be counted in determining whether a
block is white block or a colored blocA
Sec. O. That any person or corporation
desiring to build or to erect, for himself
or as agent for another. any house, build
ing or structure, to be used as a resi-
dence or place of abode, upon property
situated In any block upon which there are
no houses, buildings or structures used
as TeSlQenceS, OF upon OIneTWlSe vacant
property, shall in the application required
to be made by such person or corporation
to the city building inspector for a permit,
state that such house, building or struc-
ture, for the construction of which a per-
init is desired. is to be used as a residence
or place of abode either by white persons
or by colored persons, as the case may
he
Should no protest be so filed the permit
desired shall issue If in other respects
said application is in conformity with the
ordinance Of the city of Birmingham and
the requirements OF the city building in
spector, and thereafter all houses, build
ings or structures in said block erected
for residences or places of abode, or which
it may be desired to use residences or
places of abode, shall be SO used, eitl.er
as residences or places of abode for white
persons or for colored persons, as may be
determined by and specified in said per-
nit The provisions of this section are in
tended to provide a method by which a
block which is vacant and unimproved
may be improved, and its use, Cor either