June
5, 1950
Separate is not Equal
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Sweatt
v. Painter and a companion case, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents,
that the doctrine of "separate but equal" was invalid unless a state
was able to provide equal opportunities to each race. The Supreme Court reversed the lower court
decision, saying that the separate school failed to qualify, both because of
quantitative differences in facilities and intangible factors, such as its
isolation from most of the future lawyers with whom its graduates would
interact. The court held that, when considering graduate education, intangibles
must be considered as part of "substantive equality."
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