1.8 Chicago Defender article "STIFF FIGHT IS SEEN IN MO. U. JIM CROW SUIT"

The NAACP argued that the 14th Amendment left the court with no other alternative than to order the admission of Gaines to Missouri. Judge W. M. Dinwiddie set July 10, 1936, for the presentation of oral arguments. Lloyd Gaines and the NAACP were ready to do battle.

1.3 John D. Taylor, Democrat, MO House of Representatives, 39th District

However, the State of Missouri was not going to go down without a fight. In mid- January, 1939, John D. Taylor, a representative from Keytesville, MO, introduced a bill in the Missouri legislature designed to postpone integration of the University. Taylor, chairman of the House Appropriations committee, proudly called himself “an unreconstructed rebel.” Taylor’s proposal, House Bill No. 195, authorized Lincoln University to “establish whatever graduate and professional schools are necessary to the equivalent of the University of Missouri.”

Postcard: Lincoln Institute Jefferson City, MO

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Postcard: Lincoln Institute Jefferson City, MO

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Postcard: Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO

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Postcard: Lincoln Institute Jefferson City, MO

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Postcard: Lincoln Institute Jefferson City, MO

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Postcard: Anthony Hall, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO

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Postcard: Lincoln Institute Jefferson City, MO

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Postcard: Lincoln Institute Jefferson City, MO

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