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Lloyd Lionel Gaines (born 1911 – disappeared March 19, 1939) was the plaintiff in Gaines v. Canada (1938), one of the most important early court cases in the 20th-century U.S. civil rights movement .
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada , 305 U.S. 337 (1938), was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that states which provided a school to white students had to provide in-state education to Black students as well.
Sidney Revels Redmond (1902–1974) was an American lawyer, politician, and civil right activist. He was the chief council for Lloyd L. Gaines in Gaines v. Canada (1938). [1] [2] [3] He served as the president of the National Bar Association in 1939, he worked as an NAACP lawyer, and was a past president of the local NAACP from 1938 to 1944.
Lloyd L. Gaines: 27–28 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Gaines was a central figure in the legal case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, which was an early success for the ...
Citing the 1938 case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, a case in which "Lloyd Gaines, a negro, was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Missouri". [2] The petitioners, acting on behalf of Miss Sipuel, were Thurgood Marshall of New York City, and Amos Hall, of Tulsa (also on the brief Frank D. Reeves).
What sparked Bluford's interest in suing the University of Missouri is the law suit of Lloyd L. Gaines. Gaines filed a law suit against the University of Missouri which eventually went to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that the University must allow the acceptance of Black students into the law school. [12]
Kansas City schools were largely segregated. Lucile Bluford worked on this issue, especially in the case of Lloyd Gaines. Bluford and Gaines were both rejected from furthering their education based on the color of their skin, and both Bluford and Franklin used The Call as a platform for defending their cause.
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