<P> The Kansas case was unique among the group in that there was no contention of gross inferiority of the segregated schools' physical plant, curriculum, or staff . The district court found substantial equality as to all such factors . The lower court, in its opinion, noted that, in Topeka, "the physical facilities, the curricula, courses of study, qualification and quality of teachers, as well as other educational facilities in the two sets of schools (were) comparable ." The lower court observed that "colored children in many instances are required to travel much greater distances than they would be required to travel could they attend a white school" but also noted that the school district "transports colored children to and from school free of charge" and that "(n) o such service (was) provided to white children ." </P> <P> In the Delaware case the district court judge in Gebhart ordered that the black students be admitted to the white high school due to the substantial harm of segregation and the differences that made the separate schools unequal . </P> <P> The NAACP's chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall--who was later appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967--argued the case before the Supreme Court for the plaintiffs . Assistant attorney general Paul Wilson--later distinguished emeritus professor of law at the University of Kansas--conducted the state's ambivalent defense in his first appellate argument . </P> <P> In December 1952, the Justice Department filed a friend of the court brief in the case . The brief was unusual in its heavy emphasis on foreign - policy considerations of the Truman administration in a case ostensibly about domestic issues . Of the seven pages covering "the interest of the United States," five focused on the way school segregation hurt the United States in the Cold War competition for the friendship and allegiance of non-white peoples in countries then gaining independence from colonial rule . Attorney General James P. McGranery noted that </P>

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