McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

At a former hearing of this cause, 87 F.Supp. 526, we held the segregation laws of the State of Oklahoma, 70 O.S. 1941 §§ 455, 456 and 457, unconstitutional and inoperative insofar as they deprived the plaintiff of his constitutional right to pursue the course of study he sought at the University of Oklahoma. We were careful, however, to confine our decree to the particular facts before us, while recognizing the power of the State to pursue its own social policies regarding segregation in conformity with the equal protection of the laws. We expressly refrained from granting injunctive relief,…