Legal Opinion
Gebhart v. Belton
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided August 28, 1952PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Southerland, Chief Justice,
delivering the opionion of the court:
Two cases, alike in respect of basic principles of law, but differing in respect of the facts, were filed in the court below by certain citizens of Negro blood, seeking the admittance of the plaintiffs1 to public schools maintained for white pupils only. The first case, brought against the members of the State Board of Education and certain other school officials, concerns the claim of the plain*149tiffs, Ethel Louise Belton and others, residents in the Claymont Special School District in New Castle County and all of high school age,…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Missouri Ex Rel. Gaines v. CanadaSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Sweatt v. PainterSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- McCabe v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1914
- McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Evans v. BuchananDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1977
- Evans v. BuchananDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1974
- Steiner v. SimmonsSupreme Court of Delaware · 1955
- Gebhart v. BeltonSupreme Court of Delaware · 1952
- Neoplan USA Corp. v. TaylorDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1985
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