Murray v. Pearson was a Maryland Supreme Court decision reached on November 5, 1935. The seven judges of the Maryland Court of Appeals in their crimson robes. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit brought by Thurgood Marshall against the University of Maryland Law School, arguing that the organization's policy of racial segregation was un-Constitutional. The Baltimore City Court agreed with Marshall's reasoning, and ordered the university immediately integrated. Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. ... University of Maryland, Baltimore, (also known as UMB, and occasionally as UMAB due to its former name, University of Maryland at Baltimore) was founded in 1807. ...

The ruling was appealed to Maryland's Supreme Court, which ruled, as had its lower counterparts, in Marshall's favor. The decision was never taken to the U.S. Supreme Court, and as such the ruling was legally void outside of Maryland until 1954, when the results of Brown v. Board of Education mandated desegregation across the whole of the United States. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Holding Racial segregation of students in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because separate facilities are inherently unequal. ...