Gaines v Registrar of the Univ. of Missouri (1938)

1. Why did the NAACP bring its challenge against a law school?  Why Missouri?

2. Did Missouri offer Gaines a legal education?  What was the offer?


3.  Did Missouri offer Gaines a legal education of equal quality?  Why not accept the offer?

4.  What's unconstitutional about the Missouri law? 

5.  What happened to Gaines?

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