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Roberts v. City of Boston
''Roberts v. Boston'', 59 Mass. (5 Cush.) 198 (1850), was a court case seeking to end racial discrimination in Boston public schools. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of Boston, finding no constitutional basis for the suit. The case was later cited by the US Supreme Court in ''Plessy v. Ferguson'', which established the "separate but equal" standard.
The 2004 book, ''Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America,'' co-authored by Stephen and Paul Kendrick, explores this case, along with its social and political context.
==Overview==
Roberts v. Boston centered on Sarah Roberts, a five-year-old African-American girl. She was enrolled in Abiel Smith School, an underfunded all-black common school, far from her home in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Benjamin F. Roberts, also African-American, attempted to enroll her at closer, whites-only schools. After Ms. Roberts was denied on the basis of her race, and being physically removed from one school, Roberts wrote to the state legislature to seek a solution. Eventually, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts heard the case, in which Benjamin Roberts listed his daughter Sarah as the Plaintiff and the City of Boston as the Defendant. Not all African-Americans supported Roberts; most believed in "separate but equal" schooling and questioned the kind of education their children would receive from a white teacher. The defendant's attorney was Peleg Chandler, the plaintiff's attorneys were Charles Sumner and Robert Morris (one of the country's first African-American lawyers), and the judge was Lemuel Shaw. Sumner argued base on the distance that Sarah had to travel and the psychological trauma the girl would experience having to go to an all-black, sub-standard school.〔Sumner, Charles, (Argument Against the Constitutionality of Separate Colored Schools ), 1849.〕 Despite the Plaintiff's lawyers' best efforts, Shaw ruled for the Defendant.〔(Roberts v. City of Boston ) 5 Cush. (Mass.) 198 (1850).〕
Roberts brought the issue to the state legislature with Sumner's help and in 1855, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts banned segregated schools in the state.〔Massachusetts Chapter 256, (Desegregating Public Schools ), 1855.〕 This was the first law prohibiting segregated schools in the United States.
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