The Supreme Court reasoned that, under the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, state officials had the legal duty to treat the plaintiff in the same manner as students of other races. Education, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously (9–0), on June 5, 1950, that racial segregation within the facilities and institutions of colleges and universities is inconsistent with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this ruling and its companion case, Sweatt v. Painter, decided on the same day, the Supreme Court held that African American students must receive the same treatment as all other students in the realm of higher education.
