Wall v. Oyster
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the relator from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, dismissing a petition for the writ of mandamus, after a hearing, to compel the School Board to admit the relator to a public school for white children.
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Hearing on an appeal by the relator from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, dismissing a petition for the writ of mandamus, after a hearing, to compel the School Board to admit the relator to a public school for white children. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The appellant, Isabel I. Wall, by her next friend, Stephen E. Wall, filed a petition for mandamus to compel the appellees, James F. Oyster, William V. Cox, Barton W. Everman, et ah, who compose the board of education, to reverse the ruling of the superintendent of the Brookland White…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
A statute enacted in 1864, and afterwards carried into the Revised Statutes of the District, provided for the maintenance of separate free schools for white and “colored” children, affording like facilities and advantages to each. D. C. Rev. Stat. secs. 281, 282, 306, 310, 314. No definition is given of the word “colored,” used in the act.
*54We think it unnecessary to enter upon a discussion of the power of Congress, which exercises all the functions of a state legislature in the District of Columbia, to provide for the separation of white and colored children in the public schools. That…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Paulsen v. PortlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Roberts v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- State v. TreadawaySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1910
- United States v. La CosteU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1820
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