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The websites adress is:

http://supreme.justia.com/us/275/78/case.html

Martha Lum is a nine year old girl that has a lot of things that happened in her life, at a really young age. The things that happened to her was really tragic. She was nine years old when the petition was filed, as in that her case was filed to have it in the court. Having been born January 21, 1915, and she sued by her next friend, Chew How, who is a native-born citizen of the United States and the State of Mississippi. The petition alleged that she was of good moral character, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, and that, as she was such a citizen and an educable child, it became her father's duty under the law to send her to school; that she desired to attend the Rosedale Consolidated High School.

Summary:

This was really a tragic thing that happened to a little girl that was nly nine at the time. She was really a little girl that had a lot going on in life.