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BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 8.

344 U.S. 1 (1952)

73 S.Ct. 1

97 L.Ed. 3

BROWN ET AL. v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 8, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Carter, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood W. Robinson, III, George E. C. Hayes, George M. Johnson, William R. Ming, Jr., James M. Nabrit, Jr. and Frank D. Reeves for appellants. Oliver W. Hill was also with them on the brief in No. 191.

T. C. Callison, Attorney General of South Carolina, John W. Davis, Robert McC. Figg, Jr. and William R. Meagher for appellees in No. 101.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General, and Henry T. Wickham, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Virginia, and T. Justin Moore, Archibald G. Robertson and John W. Riely for the Prince Edward County School Board et al., appellees in No. 191.

PER CURIAM.

In two appeals now pending, No. 8, Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al., and No. 101, Briggs et al. v. Elliott et al., the appellants challenge, respectively, the constitutionally of a statute of Kansas, and a statute and the Constitution of South Carolina, which provide for segregation in the schools of these states. Appellants allege that segregation is, per se, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment...

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