US Supreme Court Per Curiam Ada Lois Sipuel v. OU Board of Regents

              IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
 MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1948.
 No. 369-October Term, 1947
 Ada Lois Sipuel, Petitioner, 
 v.
 Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, et al, Respondents
 On writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma.

 PER CURIAM.
 On January 14, 1946, the petitioner, a Negro, cocededly qualified to  receive the professional legal education offered by the State, applied  for admission to the School of Law of the University of Oklahoma, the  only institution for legal education supported and maintained by the  taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma. Petitioner's application for admission  was denied, solely because of her color.
 Petitioner then made application for a writ of mandamus in the District  Court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The writ of mandamus was refused,  and the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma affirmed the judgment of  the District Court. __________ Oklahoma ____________, 180 P. 2d 135. We  brought the case here for review.
 The petitioner is entitled to secure legal education offorded by a state  institution. To this time, it has been denied her although during the  same period many white applicants have been afforded legal education by  the State. The State must provide it for her in conformity with the  equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and provide it as  soon as it does for applicants of any other group. Missouri ex rel Gaines  v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337 (1938).
 The judgment of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma is reversed and the cause  is remanded to that court for proceedings not inconsistent with this  opinion.
 The mandate shall issue forthwith.
 Reversed.