Board Of Education cases and it helped show how it hasn't been equal in years. That “separate but equal” of the 14th Amendment was not true, was not upheld, and should be removed. The case of Murray v. Maryland of 1936 marked the beginning of “separate but equal” issues brought to court. When the University of Maryland Law School rejected black applicants because of their race. In 1933, Thurgood Marshall took up this case, later in 1935, at Baltimore City Marshall, who argued that Donald Gaines Murray was just as qualified as the white candidates. No law school had the same academics as this university, so it violated the principle of “separate but equal.” The Court agreed and sided with Murray and he was admitted to the University of Maryland Law School and later graduated (uscourts.gov). Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada (1938), in 1936, Lloyd Gaines applied to law school at the University of Missouri. He was turned down, because of his race, and then the state gave him the choice of going to another law school in Missouri or coming and going to the state law school and they would help pay for this. Gaines denied both options and sued the state, then hired the NAACP to serve Thurgood Marshalls (uscourts.gov). Sweat vs. Painter (1950), Herman Sweat applied to the University of Texas which was a white school. The school didn't want him admitted to their school, so they started an unfunded black law school. Herman Sweat then continued the