McCabe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of the Separate Coach Law of Oklahoma, are stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of the Separate Coach Law of Oklahoma, are stated in the opinion. The court erred in holding that the Oklahoma statute does not. operate and deprive those of African descent of the equal protection of the laws within the meaning of the Constitution, which implies not merely equal accessibility to the court for the prevention or redress of wrongs and the enforcement of rights, but equal exemption with others in like condition from charges and liabilities of every kind. The police…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
The legislature of the State of Oklahoma passed an act, approved December 18, 1907 (Rev. Laws, Okla., 1910, §§ 860 et seq.), known as the ‘Separate Coach Law.’ It provided that ‘every railway company . . . doing business, in this State, as a common carrier of passengers for hire’ should ‘provide separate coaches or compartments', for the accommodation of the white and negro races, which separate coaches or cars’ should ‘ be equal in all points of comfort and convenience’ (§ 1); that at passenger depots, there should be maintained ‘separate waiting rooms,’ likewise with equal facilities (§ 2);…
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