0000003722 00000 n These restrictions were obviously imposed in order to comply, as nearly as could be, with the statutory requirements of Oklahoma. (1941) 455, 456, 457, that the instruction of black students in institutions of higher education be "upon a segregated basis," however, he was assigned to a seat in the classroom in a row specified for black students, was assigned to a special table in the library, and, although permitted to eat in the cafeteria at the same time as other students, was assigned to a special table there. Thus he was required to sit apart at a designated desk in an anteroom adjoining the classroom; to sit at a designated desk on the mezzanine floor of the library, but not to use the desks in the regular reading room; and to sit at a designated table and to eat at a different time from the other students in the school cafeteria. Mark Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 19361961 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). McLAURIN v. OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS FOR HIGHER Appellant [339 U.S. 637, 640] was thereupon admitted to the University of Oklahoma Graduate School. McLaurin successfully sued in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma to gain admission to the institution (87 F. Supp. But at the very least, the state will not be depriving appellant of the opportunity to secure acceptance by his fellow students on his own merits. 0000001634 00000 n He was allowed to pursue his doctoral degree at the University of Oklahoma. In McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U.S. 637, 640, 70 S.Ct. In this case, we are faced with the question whether a state may, after admitting a student to graduate instruction in its state university, afford him different treatment from other students solely because of his race. Chief Justice Fred Vinson, writing for the court, held that the differential treatment given to McLaurin was itself a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause: "Such restrictions impair and inhibit his ability to study, to engage in discussions and exchange views with other students, and, in general, to learn his profession." Sweatt v. Painter | law case | Britannica Their own education and development will necessarily suffer to the extent that his training is unequal to that of his classmates.

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