Summary Of The William Reynolds Challenge To Segregation In Education

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An example of an US Supreme Court challenge to segregation in education is the William Reynolds vs. The Board of Education of Topeka case. In this court challenge William Reynolds lost his 1903 case against the Board of Education of Topeka. The issue underlying this case was that in Kansas’s Lowman Hill District, all students attended the same building until it burned down in 1900. Post destruction, the Board purchased a new two story building for the school. The segregational issue was that the black students were assigned to an older Douglas building, as only the white students were allowed to study at the new building. William Reynolds, a tailor, did not feel this segregation was right and hence demanded the admission of his eight-year-old