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Missouri ex rel Gaines v Canada – | |||
The Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for Missouri to refuse to admit black kids to its law school, but instead to pay for blacks to attend out-of state law schools. The Court explained that the basic consideration is not as to what sort of opportunities other states may provide, but as to what opportunities the state itself furnishes to white students and deny to black students solely based on color. In response, the state made new school for black students instead of admitting them into the white schools. | The Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for Missouri to refuse to admit black kids to its law school, but instead to pay for blacks to attend out-of state law schools. The Court explained that the basic consideration is not as to what sort of opportunities other states may provide, but as to what opportunities the state itself furnishes to white students and deny to black students solely based on color. In response, the state made new school for black students instead of admitting them into the white schools. | ||
Sweatt v Painter – Sweatt | |||
was a black person who applied to a Texas law school. However, the state’s black only law school offered to admit Sweatt when the whites only school denied him. He sued the rejecting university on racial grounds. . No matter how comparable the two schools might be in resources or other tangible factors, they are not comparable in the opportunities they would provide for Sweatt to network with the white students who constitute the majority of future Texas lawyers or to obtain a prestigious degree that would give him access to top legal jobs. By denying Sweatt equal access to these intangible benefits, Texas violated the Equal Protection Clause. | was a black person who applied to a Texas law school. However, the state’s black only law school offered to admit Sweatt when the whites only school denied him. He sued the rejecting university on racial grounds. . No matter how comparable the two schools might be in resources or other tangible factors, they are not comparable in the opportunities they would provide for Sweatt to network with the white students who constitute the majority of future Texas lawyers or to obtain a prestigious degree that would give him access to top legal jobs. By denying Sweatt equal access to these intangible benefits, Texas violated the Equal Protection Clause. | ||
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The Supreme Court held that once blacks were admitted in a previously all-white school, the university could not force them to sit in segregated areas. | The Supreme Court held that once blacks were admitted in a previously all-white school, the university could not force them to sit in segregated areas. | ||
Brown v Board of Education | |||
Facts: The present case represented a consolidation of several states where African American minors sought the aid of their state courts in gaining admission to public schools on a non-segregated basis. In all instances, Brown, and other minor African American children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation of race. They alleged that the segregation deprived them of the equal protection of the laws under the fourteenth amendment. | Facts: The present case represented a consolidation of several states where African American minors sought the aid of their state courts in gaining admission to public schools on a non-segregated basis. In all instances, Brown, and other minor African American children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation of race. They alleged that the segregation deprived them of the equal protection of the laws under the fourteenth amendment. |