Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education

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U.S. Supreme Court case education law case legal case segregation case

Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education was an 1899 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation in public education by allowing a Georgia county to close a Black high school while maintaining white schools, reinforcing the “separate but equal” doctrine later challenged in Brown v. Board of Education.

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Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education canonical	2
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899)	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	U.S. Supreme Court case ⓘ education law case ⓘ legal case ⓘ segregation case ⓘ
category	United States Supreme Court cases on civil rights ⓘ United States Supreme Court cases on education ⓘ United States Supreme Court cases on equal protection ⓘ
citation	175 U.S. 528 ⓘ
constitutionalProvisionInterpreted	Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ surface form: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
contributedTo	legal foundation for segregated school systems prior to 1954 ⓘ
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	1899 ⓘ
defendant	Richmond County Board of Education ⓘ
educationLevelInvolved	high school ⓘ
effect	limited federal judicial intervention in local school funding decisions ⓘ reinforced legality of segregated schooling in the Jim Crow era ⓘ
held	a county could discontinue a public high school for Black students while maintaining schools for white students ⓘ federal courts should defer to local school authorities in matters of taxation and school administration absent clear constitutional violations ⓘ racial segregation in public education was permissible under the U.S. Constitution at that time ⓘ
historicalSignificance	early Supreme Court approval of racially segregated public education ⓘ helped entrench separate but equal doctrine in education ⓘ
issue	Equal Protection Clause ⓘ surface form: Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause closure of Black public high school ⓘ funding of public schools ⓘ racial segregation in public education ⓘ
jurisdiction	U.S. state of Georgia ⓘ surface form: State of Georgia United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
laterChallengedBy	Brown v. Board of Education ⓘ
legalArea	civil rights law ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ education law ⓘ
legalDoctrine	separate but equal ⓘ
location	Richmond County, Georgia ⓘ
overruledInEffectBy	Brown v. Board of Education ⓘ
parties	J. W. Cumming et al. ⓘ Richmond County Board of Education ⓘ
plaintiffs	Black taxpayers of Richmond County, Georgia ⓘ
precededBy	Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ⓘ surface form: Plessy v. Ferguson
precedentFor	upholding racial segregation in public schools ⓘ
racePolicy	closure of Black public high school ⓘ maintenance of white public high school ⓘ
relatedTo	Brown v. Board of Education ⓘ Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ⓘ surface form: Plessy v. Ferguson
subjectMatter	allocation of school funds by race ⓘ public school taxation ⓘ
timeframe	19th-century United States case law ⓘ
timePeriod	Jim Crow laws ⓘ surface form: Jim Crow era

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) → relatedCase → Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education ⓘ

subject surface form: Plessy v. Ferguson

J. W. Cumming et al. → roleIn → Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education ⓘ

J. W. Cumming et al. → caseCitation → Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899)