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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. After being denied admission to the University of Missouri School of Law because he was African American, and refusing the university's offer to ...
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Jul 12, 2009 · By David Stout. July 11, 2009. Lloyd Gaines was moody that winter of 1939, acting not at all like a man who had just triumphed in one of the biggest Supreme Court cases in decades. And oddly, even ...
Lloyd Gaines and His Quest for Educational Equality. Lloyd Lionel Gaines applied to the University of Missouri School of Law in 1936. Despite an outstanding scholastic record, Gaines was denied admission based solely on the grounds that Missouri’s Constitution called for “separate education of the races.”
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Lloyd Gaines. Full Name: Lloyd Lionel Gaines. Born: 1911. Died: Unknown (disappeared March 19, 1939) Missouri Hometown: St. Louis. Region of Missouri: St. Louis. Categories: African Americans, Leaders and Activists. Lloyd Gaines was the plaintiff in Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, a lawsuit that resulted in an important legal victory for the ...
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 Gaines’s efforts to obtain a legal education in Missouri resulted in a Supreme Court decision that marked the beginning of the end of state-sponsored racial segregation. Gaines was born in Mississippi on March 10, 1912. When he was fourteen years old, the family moved from Oxford, Mississippi, to St. Louis.
Lloyd Lionel Gaines 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 pay for him to attend a neighboring state's law school that had no racial restriction, Gaines ...
