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· 12/12/1898

North Chicago Street Railroad v. Nelson

Citations

  • 79 Ill. App. 229
  • 1898 Ill. App. LEXIS 243

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding the segregation of schools based on race was unconstitutional eighty-six years before the United States Supreme Court decided the same
  • rejecting the argument that a school district could forbid African American children from attending school on the ground of race
  • desegregating public schools over eighty years before the Brown 28 decision

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Judges: Sears

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