- Collection:
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
- Title:
- 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
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century
African Americans--Civil rights--United States
African American lawyers--New York (State)--New York
Discrimination in education--Missouri
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
United States. Supreme Court
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
University of Missouri. School of Law--Trials, litigation, etc. - People:
- Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950
White, Walter, 1893-1955
Gaines, Lloyd Lionel--Trials, litigation, etc. - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In this hand-written letter dated May 24, 1938, Charles H. Houston updates NAACP Executive Secretary Walter White on the case of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada. Houston notes that he is working extremely long hours on the case. 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.
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. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_evenhand_br0033s
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0033s.jpg
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Serial and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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Charles H. Houston to Walter White reporting on the progress of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
