Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma

Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 7–8, 1948 Decided January 12, 1948
Full case name	Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, et al.
Citations	332 U.S. 631 (more) 68 S. Ct. 299; 92 L. Ed. 247; 1948 U.S. LEXIS 2645
Case history
Prior	Judgment for the State, District Court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma, 199 Okla. 36; affirmed, (Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1946) 180 P.2d 135; cert. granted, 332 U.S. 814 (1947).
Holding
Colleges can not deny admittance based on race.
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinion
Per curiam
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

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Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma

Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, 332 U.S. 631 (1948), is a per curiam United States Supreme Court decision involving racial segregation toward African Americans by the University of Oklahoma and the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.^[1]