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In University of Maryland v. Murray, Amherst College graduate Donald Murray’s admission to the law school is granted because the state failed to provide a separate law school for Blacks, which was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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In University of Maryland v. Murray, the University of Maryland failed to convince the Maryland Court of Appeals that Baltimore resident and Amherst College graduate Donald Gaines Murray should not be admitted to the college. The NAACP's Charles H. Houston and Thurgood Marshall represented Murray in front of the appellate court that maintained the lower court's decision to admit him. The decision was based on the state's failure to provide a separate law school for Blacks, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.