Word: mclaurin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordered the University of Oklahoma to stop segregating Graduate Student G. W. McLaurin, a Negro, in its classrooms. He had been admitted to classes with whites, but first put in a little anteroom. Later, like 23 other Negroes at Oklahoma, he was simply seated in a different row from the whites...
...rights, and several anti-trust suits, the Court has some important civil rights decisions to make. It must decide whether the separate Negro law school that the University of Texas set up for Marion Sweatt is equal--Sweatt claims it is not. And the Court must rule whether George McLaurin is correct in stating that his rights have been abused by segregation at Oklahoma State University. The Henderson case, involving discrimination on southern railroads, is also still on the docket. Since the Court said in 1896 that separate facilities could be made equal, decisions in these cases may reverse...