Cumming v. County Board of Education

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Cumming v. County Board of Education
John Marshall Harlan

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Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899) ("Richmond") was a class action suit decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. It is a landmark case, in that it sanctioned de jure segregation of races in American schools. The Supreme Court overturned its decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Warning: template has been deprecated.

828870Cumming v. County Board of Education — SyllabusJohn Marshall Harlan

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Opinion of the Court

United States Supreme Court

Cumming v. County Board of Education

Argued: October 30, 1899. --- Decided: December 18, 1899

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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