The first two court approved desegregation cases involving graduate and professional public schools during 1935-1940 are discussed. These cases demonstrate a shift in emphasis from segregated to desegregated public graduate and professional schools. The court invoked the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in both Maryland and Missouri cases. In Maryland, Donald Gaines Murray, a black Maryland resident and college graduate who was qualified for admission to the University of Maryland Law School was denied admission, apparently on the basis of his race. The school offered the applicant an out-of-state scholarship to any other graduate law school. The State Supreme Court ruled that Murray must be admitted since he was qualified and because the state provided only one law school. In Missouri, Lloyd Gaines, a qualified, black college graduate was denied admission to University of Missouri Law School. This case was finally decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ordered Gaines to be admitted. Both cases emphasized equality and raised a number of questions, including: is it unconstitutional for a person to travel to another state to obtain an education available within the state, and is a separate graduate/professional school equal because a state erects one as a minority school? (SW)