Court Case
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
The Supreme Court ruled that states providing a law school for white students had to provide a genuinely equal legal education for Black students within the state.
Year
1938
Impact
Positive
Status
Active
Party
Unknown
Era
Jim Crow and Disenfranchisement
Impact Context
A major pre-Brown education case that chipped away at segregated higher education.
What This Policy Did
A major pre-Brown education case that chipped away at segregated higher education.
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Sources
Oyez • Other
Case summary explaining that states providing legal education to white students could not satisfy equal protection by sending Black students out of state instead of admitting them to an in-state law school.
National Archives • Archive
National Archives timeline placing Gaines among the major legal steps that built toward Brown v. Board of Education.