Gaines, Lloyd Lionel

Authoritative Name:
Gaines, Lloyd Lionel
Biography:
Plaintiff of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada. African American who applied for admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1936 and was denied admission due to race. The ruling of this case, which was tried before the United States Supreme Court, required states with only one educational institution to allow entry to both white and African American students if no separate school for African Americans existed.
Associated Subjects:
Gaines, Lloyd Lionel
Gaines, Lloyd Lionel--Correspondence
Gaines, Lloyd Lionel--Family
Gaines, Lloyd Lionel--Family--Health
Gaines, Lloyd Lionel--Homes and haunts--Missouri--Saint Louis
Gaines, Lloyd Lionel--Trials, litigation, etc.
Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

4 items in 2 collections (expand all)

Case materials

Date of Original:
1936-05/1939-05
Collection:
Lloyd L. Gaines Collection
Contributing Institution:
University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Law. Library

Family correspondence

Date of Original:
1927-09/1939-03-03
Collection:
Lloyd L. Gaines Collection
Contributing Institution:
University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Law. Library

Photographs

Date of Original:
1911/1939
Collection:
Lloyd L. Gaines Collection
Contributing Institution:
University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Law. Library

Charles H. Houston to Walter White reporting on the progress of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada

Creator:
Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950
Date of Original:
1938-05-24
Collection:
With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:
Library of Congress