Reynolds v. Board of Education

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J. :

The board of education of the city of Topeka, a city of the first class, provides for the education of colored children in schools separate from those maintained for white children, in all' grades below the high school. The plaintiff, a colored man, a *673citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, presented his son at a school which white children only were allowed to attend, and demanded that he be received and taught there. The child was eligible to instruction at that school, except for his color, and on this account was…