Search results
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. After being denied admission to the University of Missouri School of Law because he was African American, and refusing the university's offer to ...
- History (BA), Economics (MA)
Lloyd Gaines was never seen or heard from again. Without Gaines, the NAACP was forced to drop the case. Not only did Gaines never have the chance to attend the University of Missouri, but neither did any other Black student until 1950. The Law School at the University of Missouri-Columbia did not admit its first Black students until the late 1960s.
People also ask
Did Lloyd Gaines go to University of Missouri?
Did Lloyd Gaines get a law degree?
Why was Lloyd Lionel Gaines denied admission to University of Missouri?
Where did George Gaines go to Law School?
Jul 12, 2009 · George Gaines accepted an honorary doctor of law degree from the University of Missouri in 2006 for his uncle Lloyd Gaines. ... But Mr. Gaines said he wanted to go to the University of Missouri ...
Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2016. Gragg, Larry. “Doing ‘Some Good’: George Horne’s Role in the 1950 Desegregation of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and the University of Missouri.” Missouri Historical Review 116, no. 1 (October 2021): 3–24. Grothaus, Larry.
Lloyd Crow Stark was the governor of Missouri from 1937-1941, while Lloyd Gaines was pursuing his legal case against the University of Missouri. In 1939, Stark signed the Taylor Bill, which hastily created a black law school associated with Lincoln University, as a way to avoid integrating the University of Missouri.
Dec 12, 2018 · No one knows what happened to Lloyd Lionel Gaines. He was last seen in Chicago on March 19, 1939. Three months before he went missing, on Dec. 12, 1938, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor in a case against the University of Missouri School of Law. The court said the school violated the constitution when it rejected Gaines' application ...
Lloyd Lionel Gaines grew up in St. Louis and was valedictorian of his high school class. After attending graduating from Lincoln University with a B.A. in history with honors in 1935, Mr. Gaines applied to the University of Missouri School of Law in 1936.
