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Gong Lum v. Rice


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Gong Lum v. Rice
by William Howard Taft
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Lum v. Rice, 275 U.S. 78 (1927), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the exclusion on account of race of a child of Chinese ancestry from a state high school did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The decision effectively approved the exclusion of minority children from schools reserved for whites.

876258Gong Lum v. Rice — SyllabusWilliam Howard Taft

United States Supreme Court

275 U.S. 78

Gong Lum  v.  Rice

 Argued: Oct. 12, 1927. --- Decided: Nov 21, 1927

Mr. James N. Flowers, of Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs in error.

Messrs. Rush H. Knox, of Jackson, Miss., and E. C. Sharp, of Corinth, Miss., for defendants in error.

Mr. Chief Justice TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

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