Lehew v. Brummell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court. — Hon. Gf. D. Burgess, Judge. Any attempt on tile part of tHe state to deprive certain of the children of a certain school district from attending the only school in said district, of which they are listed, and properly enumerated, for the sole and only reason that they are colored, or of African descent, is in violation of section i of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States.
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Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court. — Hon. Gf. D. Burgess, Judge. Any attempt on tile part of tHe state to deprive certain of the children of a certain school district from attending the only school in said district, of which they are listed, and properly enumerated, for the sole and only reason that they are colored, or of African descent, is in violation of section i of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States. Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U. S. 308; Virginia v. Rives, 100 U. S. 313 ; United States v. Stanley, 109 U. S. 8 ; Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U. S. 94; Matter of…
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.
The five- plaintiffs in this case reside in school district number 4, in Grundy county, and each has children entitled to attend the public school maintained therein for the education of white children. In September, 1887, when this suit was commenced, the defendant Barr was the teacher, and three of the defendants were directors of the school district. The defendant Brummell is a man of Africant descent, and at the *548last-mentioned date had four children, all of whom resided with him in said district and were of the ages entitling them to attend the public schools. These four ■children were…
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