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Lawsuit Baltimore City Court
Thurgood Marshall is one founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This organization was founded in 1909, and the goal of its establishment was to abolish segregation and racial discrimination in housing, education, transportation, and employment. Thurgood Marshall sued the university of Maryland on behalf of Donald Gaines Murry, who was rejected by the university because of his race. -
Pearson V. Murray
The Baltimore Court ruled in Murray's favor, and the University of Maryland appealed, but the Court of Appeals ruled in Murray's favor and ordered the university to accept him. -
Lawsuit against the Missouri state
Loyed Gaines decided to sue the Missouri state with the help of the {NAACP} organization because he was not accepted to the University of Missouri due to his race, and the state of Missouri offered him two options; the first was to enroll in a black university, if it is completed, and the second is to pay the cost of attending the other University out of the state, but he refused both options. -
Missouri ex Gaines V. Canada
Gaines's cause reached the supreme court, which ruled in his favor and required the state to provide him with legal education within its boundaries. -
NAACP concentration effort
The National Association for the Advancement of colored people organization seeks to encourage parents of African American descent through seminars and newspapers to enroll their children in white schools in Kansas to eliminate racial discrimination in education. -
The National Association for the Advancement of colored
By the 1950s, the National Association for the Advancement of colored {NAACP} this organization has worked hard to challenge segregation in public school, and has field lawsuits on behalf of plaintiffs in South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware.
Thurgood Marshall, the head of the {NAACP}leagal Defense of Educational fund served a chief a attorney for the plaintiffs. -
Lawsuit in U.S federal court against the Topeka Board of education
The case began when the public school system in Topeka, Kansas, refused to enroll local black resident Oliver Brown's daughter at the elementary school closest to their home, instead requiring her to ride a bus to a segregated black school farther away. -
Brown V. Board Education of Topeka
Brown V. Board of Topeka is a decision of the Supreme Court that states that laws that create racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional even if the schools are of equal quality.