the State Historical Society of Missouri
Leland Ware is the Louis L. Redding Chair for the Study of Law and Public Policy at the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware.
![Lloyd Gaines. [University of Missouri School of Law, Lloyd Gaines Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Lloyd-Gaines.jpg?itok=-GlUSU71 "Lloyd Gaines. [University of Missouri School of Law, Lloyd Gaines Collection]")
Lloyd Gaines’s efforts to obtain a legal education in Missouri resulted in a Supreme Court…
![Homer G. Phillips. Painting by Vernon Smith. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, 2016-058-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Homer-G.-Phillips.jpg?itok=dgdYMg_G "Homer G. Phillips. Painting by Vernon Smith. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, 2016-058-0001]")
![Roy Wilkins in 1963. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsc-01273]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-11/1.%20Roy%20Wilkins.jpg?itok=-zHJ_spM "Roy Wilkins in 1963. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsc-01273]")