[4] According to J. Moulder, the State School Superintendent at the time, that legislation was meant to exclude children of Chinese, African, and other descents.
[1] The California legislature also passes section 1662 of the 1880 education code, which required all schools must be open for all children, except those with "filthy or vicious habits" or "suffering from contagious or infectious diseases.
[4] In 1890, the California Supreme Court ruled in Wysinger v. Crookshank that Black children cannot be denied attendance from a regular public school.
[6] Alice Piper, and many other children of the Paiute tribe, tried to enroll in the local all-white public high school.
The judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, on the basis that Piper's parents were tax paying citizens of the United States.
[4] Following the ruling, Governor Earl Warren signed a law to repeal segregation in schools on June 14, 1947.