Woolridge v. Board of Education

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

In this action the plaintiffs, colored persons, seek to compel the defendants, the superintendent of schools and board of education of the city of Galena, to admit the plaintiffs’ children and other pupils of the colored race to the grades to which they were assigned at the opening of the term of school beginning on the sixth day of September, 1915; to refrain from requiring the plaintiffs’ children and other pupils of the colored race to attend a separate school provided for pupils of the colored race; and to refrain from discriminating…