McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.
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McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents is a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that held that segregating a Black graduate student within a previously all‑white university violated the Equal Protection Clause and helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria. Context triple: [McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, fact, McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.]
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Moorland–Spingarn Research Center
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria. Target entity description: McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents is a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that held that segregating a Black graduate student within a previously all‑white university violated the Equal Protection Clause and helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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Pauli Murray College
Pauli Murray College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, named after civil rights activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray.
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McGraw Hall
McGraw Hall is one of Cornell University's historic academic buildings, prominently located on the Arts Quad and housing various humanities and social science departments.
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McClellan Hall
McClellan Hall is a historic collegiate building located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Moorland–Spingarn Research Center
The Moorland–Spingarn Research Center is a major research library and archive renowned for its extensive collections documenting the history and culture of the African diaspora.
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Kerr Hall
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Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Supreme Court case
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desegregation case ⓘ landmark civil rights case ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
civil rights law
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constitutional law ⓘ education law ⓘ |
| chiefJustice |
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson
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surface form:
Fred M. Vinson
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| citation | 339 U.S. 637 ⓘ |
| constitutionalProvision |
Equal Protection Clause
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Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ
surface form:
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decision | state-imposed restrictions that impair a student’s ability to study, engage, and exchange views solely because of race are unconstitutional ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 1950-06-05 ⓘ |
| decisionType | unanimous decision ⓘ |
| educationLevel | graduate education ⓘ |
| effectOnDoctrine | narrowed the application of separate but equal in education ⓘ |
| fact |
George W. McLaurin
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surface form:
George W. McLaurin was admitted to the University of Oklahoma on a segregated basis
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in the cafeteria
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in the library
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| followedBy | Brown v. Board of Education ⓘ |
| holding |
Segregating a Black graduate student within a previously all-white public university violates the Equal Protection Clause
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State-imposed segregation within the same educational facilities is unconstitutional ⓘ |
| impact |
helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education
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helped undermine the separate but equal doctrine in higher education ⓘ |
| institutionInvolved | University of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| issue |
Equal Protection Clause
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surface form:
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
racial segregation in graduate education ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| languageOfProceedings | English ⓘ |
| legalDoctrine | separate but equal ⓘ |
| location | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| opinionBy |
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson
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surface form:
Fred M. Vinson
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| partyDescription | involved a Black doctoral student in education ⓘ |
| partyRace | the petitioner was Black ⓘ |
| petitioner | George W. McLaurin ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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surface form:
Plessy v. Ferguson
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| precedentFor | desegregation of public universities ⓘ |
| relatedCase |
Brown v. Board of Education
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Sweatt v. Painter ⓘ |
| remedy | removal of segregated conditions imposed on McLaurin ⓘ |
| respondent | Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education ⓘ |
| result | segregation of McLaurin within the University of Oklahoma was struck down ⓘ |
| timePeriod | post-World War II civil rights era ⓘ |
| yearDecided | 1950 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria. Description of subject: McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents is a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that held that segregating a Black graduate student within a previously all‑white university violated the Equal Protection Clause and helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
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fact
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McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.
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McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.
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fact
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McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.
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subject surface form:
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
this entity surface form:
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.
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fact
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McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.
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subject surface form:
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
this entity surface form:
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in the library
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.
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fact
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McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria.
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subject surface form:
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
this entity surface form:
McLaurin was required to sit in designated segregated areas in the cafeteria