Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...represented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its attorney, Thurgood Marshall. He had a powerful precedent. Nine years ago, in Gaines v. Missouri, the Supreme Court ruled that Missouri must let Lloyd Gaines study law at the state university, or set up an equal law school for Negroes...
Oklahoma's assistant attorney general admitted that Miss Sipuel could not get facilities equal to those of the University of Oklahoma "tomorrow or the next day," but said that the regents would open a Negro law school "promptly" if she asked for one. Snapped Justice William O. Douglas: "She might be an old lady by that time...
...confined our "study" to the textbook, and at the end of two hours had covered approximately half of it. A session of equal length the next morning finished off Binkley, leaving only a few chapters in Schaprio's History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century" to be done...
...hand down this ruling by denying a Negro girl admission to the University of Oklahoma Law School. The decision leaves the State of Oklahoma with the alternatives of admitting the student to the law school by the beginning of the next term, January 15, or of establishing separate and equal facilities for her by the same date. The emphasis of the Court's ruling centered on the time element. It removed the possibility that a state may recognize equal rights in theory, but delay interminably in providing proper facilities...
This latest decision is an extension of the verdict of "Missouri v. Holland," in which the Court ordered the State of Missouri to provide equal facilities but failed to mention the matter of time. Missouri, thereupon, provided a one room, one teacher law school for Negroes pending the time when it could construct more suitable accommodations...