The school segregation cases, generally cited as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) were first argued in the Supreme Court of the United States in December, 1952. On June 8, 1953, six months after the first arguments and nearly a year prior to the decision, the Supreme Court ordered that the cases be re-argued in the October 1953 term (345 U.S. 972). The Court propounded a series of questions and requested counsel to discuss these questions in their briefs and oral argument. The purpose of this was to determine whether the Congress which submitted the Fourteenth Amendment, and the State legislatures and conventions which ratified it, regarded the Amendment as abolishing separation of the races in public schools. The data assembled in that project provide the basis for this survey, state by state, of each state's answers to the questions posed by the Court. (Author/MC)