State v. Bd. of School Com'rs of Mobile County

By this mandamus proceeding instituted in the circuit court of Mobile county, the relator sought to require the board of school commissioners of Mobile county to admit relator’s children of school age to the public school for white children in their school district. They had been denied admittance on the ground that they were “colored children.” From a judgment denying the petition, this appeal is prosecuted.

Without question these children have a clear legal right to attend the public school for the race to which they belong.

“Separate schools shall be provided for white and oolored children,…