BLACKAMOOR GAINES

I was amazed to read that in 1936 the University of Missouri School of Law had not excluded Chinese, Japanese, or Hindu students from being admitted to it, at the same time that it had excluded a student of African descent , Lloyd Gaines. These facts came to light in trial in 1936, in Columbia, Missouri, during Charles Hamilton Houston's direct examination of the university registrar , Silas Woodson Canada. P. 111-112, "On the Cusp in Missouri," ROOT AND BRANCH: CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON, THURGOOD MARSHALL, AND THE STRUGGLE TO END SEGREGATION (2010) by Rawn James, Jr., Esq. Perhaps as amazing, was that TIME MAGAZINE had "ridiculed as 'Blackamoor Gaines'" the plaintiff, Lloyd Gaines, after the Missouri Supreme Court refused to admit Gaines, before his United States Supreme Court appeal succeeded. P.114