Legal Opinion
Rice v. Gong Lum
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided May 11, 1925No. 24773PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellees were plaintiffs in the court below and filed a petition for a mandamus against the trustees of a consolidated public school for the white race in Bolivar county, Miss., known as the Bosedale consolidated school, and situated at Bosedale in Bolivar county, Miss., against the county superintendent of education, and against the state superintendent of education, to compel said trustees and said county and state superintendents of education to admit Martha Lum, a minor of school age, of pure Chinese and Mongolian race, to rights of scholarship in said public school.
It is alleged…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- United States v. Midwest Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Takao Ozawa v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Cory v. CarterIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
- People v. HallCalifornia Supreme Court · 1854
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Gong Lum v. RiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- County Board of Education v. Parents & Custodians of Students at Rienzi School Attendance CenterMississippi Supreme Court · 1964
- Briscoe v. BuzbeeMississippi Supreme Court · 1932
- Montgomery v. Starkville Municipal Separate School DistrictDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 1987
- Lillie Boman v. Birmingham Transit CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
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