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...states with Jim Crow laws, announced that it would admit Negro students to the University of Delaware to any course not offered by the Delaware State College for Negroes. The trustees said they had taken the hint from the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Ada Sipuel case (TIME...
Even with the help of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ada Lois Sipuel, who is a Negro, couldn't get into the University of Oklahoma law school. The Court, which made up its mind in an almost unprecedented hurry, had told the State of Oklahoma to give Ada an education equal to what whites get (TIME, Jan. 19). And at least one of the judges made it plain that a law school for just one pupil is no legal education at all. But this week the Oklahoma state regents established a school of law at Oklahoma City (as part...
...front row of the U.S. Supreme Court last week sat Ada Lois Sipuel, a shy and slender Negro girl, watching the justices. One by one they leaned forward to ask questions; and usually their questions were phrased to badger the attorneys for the State of Oklahoma. They were all talking about Ada...
...Ada, who is 23 and the daughter of an Oklahoma clergyman, had applied for admission to the University of Oklahoma law school two years ago. University officials conceded that her application was in order, but refused it-even though there is no other law school in the state for Negroes to go to. Ada Sipuel brought suit...
Four days later, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson drawled out the court's unanimous decision, which seemed to go further than the Gaines rule. Said Vinson: "[Ada Sipuel] is entitled to secure legal education afforded by a state institution. [Oklahoma] must provide it for her . . . and provide it as soon as it does for applicants of any other group." Ada took a train for home, to be ready when Oklahoma's new term begins next week...