November 21, 1927
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of nine-year old Chinese-American Martha Lum, who was removed from the Rosedale Consolidated School in Bolivar County, Mississippi solely because she was of Chinese descent. In Lum v. Rice, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state’s rights and Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” applied to Asian American students, or as the court said, students of the “yellow race.” (In the photo, Martha is in the front row, third from the left.)
