The Origins of the 14th Amendment

The NAACP had already begun litigating school segregation, but they had been litigating higher education cases before attempting cases that tested the 14th Amendment argument as pertaining to elementary schools K through 12 schools. In 1938, the NAACP financed and argued for a plaintiff in Missouri, X-Rell, that kind of means on behalf of Gaines v Canada in 1938. And although a win, right, in kind of a long list of civil rights cases, it mandated that states must only provide equal education in separate schools.