Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will doubtless be 1) to undermine the civil authority of Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union in Ukrainian districts, 2) to work up a separatist movement, 3) to create incidents which will eventually make "necessary" Ruthenia's-i.e., Nazi Germany's-intervention to restore "law and order," and liberate Ukrainian kinsfolk...
...some three years ago, 24-year-old Lloyd L. Gaines, Negro, bearing a diploma from Missouri's Lincoln University (for Negroes), presented himself at University of Missouri, surprised its officials by proposing to enter their Law School. In its 96 years, the university had never admitted a Negro. Like all Southern States, Missouri makes Negroes and whites attend separate schools...
More forehanded, however, than most Southern States, which make no provision for Negroes' professional education, Missouri had provided scholarships in northern law schools for Negroes. Missouri officials offered Gaines such a scholarship. Gaines refused it, insisted on his right to be taught law in Missouri, like white folks. Last week, in a historic decision, the U. S. Supreme Court held that Lloyd Gaines was within his rights...
...Court found that 1) Gaines was admittedly qualified to enter University of Missouri's Law School, and 2) Missouri could not shift to another State its constitutional duty to provide equal educational opportunities for all citizens, whatever their color. Reversing Missouri's courts, the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Missouri to admit Lloyd Gaines to its State university or give him legal training at Lincoln University...
Playing for time, Missouri waited for official word from the Court, refused to say what it would do with Lloyd Gaines, now a clerk in the Michigan civil service. Best guess was that the Legislature would start a law course at Lincoln University...