wgbh_tdcr_026 026 tdcr wgbh yes Documenting Brown 3 : Gong Lum v. Rice Discrimination in education--Mississippi Students--Mississippi Civil rights movements--Mississippi Minorities--Education United States--Race relations African Americans--Social conditions African Americans--Segregation Asian Americans--Legal status, laws, etc. California--Emigration and immigration Bills, Legislative Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka California. Chinese Exclusion Act United States--Race relations United States. Supreme Court Lum, Gong--Trials, litigation, etc. Lum, Martha Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc. Ferguson, John H., judge--Trials, litigation, etc. In the mid-1920s, a Chinese American man named Gong Lum sued the local school board when his daughter, Martha, was denied admission to her local school because of her race. When the case went before the Supreme Court in 1927, Gong Lum lost. The Court affirmed that segregated schools for Chinese Americans did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. Collection funded by: Opensource. Grade range: 6-12. Part of the series "Brown Reactions" : 1. Documenting Brown -- 2. Plessy v. Ferguson -- 3. Gong Lum v. Rice -- 4. Mendez v. Westminster -- 5. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 -- 6. Brown v. Board of Education, 1955 -- 7. Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- 8. Collected Excerpts. Lesson plans using this resource: Re-examining Brown. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection WGBH Educational Foundation 2002/2008 Instructional materials Teaching guides Resource units Decisions http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/osi04/soc/ush/civil/gonglum/index.html text/html text/pdf 67.1 Kb Forms part of: Teacher's Domain Civil Right Special Collection. A PDF viewer may be needed to view the documents. 1866/1964 Mississippi California The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. 20110629 151902