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Cumming v. Board of Education of Richmond County  

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  • At issue in Cumming v. Board of Education of Richmond County (1899) was whether denying a high school education to African American students was a “clear and unmistakable disregard of rights” (p. 545) in violation of their constitutional protections under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Cumming v. Board of Education of Richmond County]

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