Medlin v. County Board of Education

It is always with regret that I have to differ with my brethren of the majority, and I never do so unless I am convinced otherwise by reasons which my own logic does not enable me to overcome, and never express that difference in the form of a separate opinion unless the case is of the greatest importance or the principles involved are of the gravest moment in the administration of justice. I so regard this case, and the doctrines of law which govern it. The Legislature had positively and unmistakably forbidden that a child having any negro blood in its veins should be admitted to a public…