toward the new Chinese Primary School:Mamie Tape will never attend any of the Chinese schools of your making! Never!!!Despite Mary Tape's statement in the letter, she enrolled Mamie Tape in the Chinese School. Tape v. Hurley has a mixed result. On the one hand, it permitted the enrollment of Chinese children into public schools. On the other hand, the court gave the education board the right to establish a segregated school in San Francisco. Tape v. Hurley is both temporally and substantively similar to the landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson, which in 1896 justified the legality of segregated schools on the premise of "separate but equal." However, the cases differ in the fact that African-American children were regarded as citizens and Chinese-American children as foreigners or outsiders. See also Clark v. Board of School Directors, an 1868 case in Iowa Lum v. Rice, 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case holding that Mississippi could require a Chinese student to attend blacks-only school Plessy v. Ferguson, an 1896 case legalizing segregated schools nation-wide Brown v. Board of Education, a 1954 case overturning school segregation References Further reading External links 1885 in United States case law California state case law Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States United States school desegregation case law 1885 in California 19th century in San Francisco Education in San Francisco Chinese-American culture in San Francisco