TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 11 P5

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 11 P5 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | MILESTONES IN THE LAW BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION 27 children and the other system for colored children. Plaintiff sought to have his child who was a citizen of Chinese extraction admitted to the school maintained for white students in the county where she lived. She was refused admission by the school authorities. The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court of Mississippi refusing to grant a Writ of Mandamus to compel the school authorities to admit the Chinese-American citizen to the white school. The opinion by Chief Justice Taft includes the following statement pp. 85-86 The question here is whether a Chinese citizen of the United States is denied equal protection of the laws when he is classed among the colored races and furnished facilities for education equal to that offered to all whether white brown yellow or black. Were this a new question it would call for very full argument and consideration but we think that it is the same question which has been many times decided to be within the constitutional power of the state legislature to settle without intervention of the federal courts under the Federal Constitution. To support this proposition the Court cites sixteen cases decided by federal courts and state courts of last resort including Plessy v. Ferguson supra. We do not believe that appellants suggest that the rights of the Negro citizens differ from the rights of the Mongolian citizen Martha Lum. If such an idea is advanced herein this Court should have no more difficulty in disposing of that contention than it did of that phase of the Gong case where it seemed to be contended that a yellow child had different rights than a Negro child. The Court simply held that children of all races have equal rights but that those rights are not infringed upon when the state provides that the different races shall be educated in separate schools of equal facility. Appellants further contend that whatever force the .

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