Williams v. Board of Education
Supreme Court of Kansas
Original proceeding in mandamus. STATEMENT. This is an original action in mandamus to compel the defendant board of education to admit the plaintiff’s children to .the Lincoln school in the city of Parsons, and to give them educational facilities equal to those given to the white children in that city, the plaintiff’s children being colored.
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Original proceeding in mandamus. STATEMENT. This is an original action in mandamus to compel the defendant board of education to admit the plaintiff’s children to .the Lincoln school in the city of Parsons, and to give them educational facilities equal to those given to the white children in that city, the plaintiff’s children being colored. It appears from the recitals of the alternative writ that the city of Parsons is a city of the first class, and that it is divided into four nearly equal parts by the main line of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, running north and south, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Benson, J.:
The statute relating to schools in cities of the first class contains this provision:
“The board of education shall have power to elect their own officers, make all necessary rules for the government of the schools of said city under its charge and control, and of the said board, subject to the provisions of this act and the laws of this state; to organize and maintain separate schools for the education of white and colored children, except in the high school, where no discrimination shall be made on account of color; to exercise the sole…
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