Kalamazoo School Case

Kalamazoo School Case is a Michigan historical marker in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, dedicated 1959.

Kalamazoo County · dedicated 1959 · Westnedge and West Vine, Kalamazoo

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Near here, in 1858, Kalamazoo’s first high school was opened. Fifteen years later the right of the school board to levy taxes to support a high school was challenged. A unanimous decision of the Michigan Supreme Court, rendered by Justice Thomas M. Cooley in 1874, affirmed an opinion of Kalamazoo Circuit Judge Charles R. Brown that upheld this right. As a result, the way opened for free high schools in Michigan and also in other states.

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