charles houston and thurgood marshall took on lloyd gaines case.and this case made its way to the supreme court of the united states. they could finally put the strategy to the test, saying to the justices, there is no law school for black students, so there is no separate but equal. we don't even reach the question of equality because there's no separate. there's nothing there. there's nowhere for them to go. because this is a personal right, the 14th amendment is a personal right that each individual, each american citizen enjoys, you have to remedy it immediately. the only way to remedy that is to allow our client, mr. gaines, to attend the university of missouri law school. the justices agreed. they said, it is a personal right, the 14th amendment and he should be allowed to attend the university of missouri law school. a mysterious development, mr. gaines, the plaintiff, disappeared and to this day no one, there is no record, no one, not even his own family knows what happened to him. there are numerous theory. some say he was of course murder