State Board of Education v. Brown

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Affirming.

There is now established, and has been for a number of years, a graded school district for white pupils in Fleming county, Kentucky, including within its boundary the city of Flemingsburg and some adjacent territory, and which is known as Flemingsburg graded common school district, and it will hereafter be referred to as the “graded school district.” The individual appellees, Arthur Brown and others, are colored people who reside and have children within the school age inside the limits of the graded school district. They brought this…