Lloyd Gaines and the fight to end segregation
By: James W. Endersby and William T. Horner
Contributors: Horner, William T., 1968- author
Series: Studies in constitutional democracy
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780826220851
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Discrimination in higher education; University of Missouri. School of Law; Civil rights; University of Missouri; African American law students; African Americans
Description: "In 1936, Lloyd Gaines's application to the University of Missouri Law School was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university’s decision. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the first in a long line of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race, higher education, and equal opportunity. The court case drew national headlines, and the NAACP moved Gaines to Chicago after he received death threats. Before he could attend law school, he vanished. This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers (including Charles Houston, known as “the man who killed Jim Crow”) who advanced a concerted strategy to produce political change. Horner and Endersby also discuss the African American newspaper journalists and editors who mobilized popular support for the NAACP's strategy"--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.