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Creation Date
1927
Description
Gong Lum v. Rice is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the exclusion on account of race of a child of Chinese ancestry from a state high school did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The decision effectively approved the exclusion of minority children from schools reserved for whites.
Significance: The Court applied the "separate but equal" formulation of Plessy v. Ferguson to the public schools.
