Before 1948, the Board of Trustees of the Pleasant Grove Independent School District maintained Kirby Elementary, a separate school that Black children could attend through eighth grade. In May of 1948, the trustees removed all grades at Kirby except the first and second. Soon after, they closed the school altogether. Black residents E. C. Bagsby, Eugene Robinson, and Edward Radford, requested that Kirby be maintained. The trustees refused while still maintaining an elementary school and high school for white children. The three residents claimed that not providing equal facilities for Black children was an abuse of the trustees' powers and a denial of the Black children’s rights under the law. They sued, demanding that the trustees maintain Kirby as a full-course elementary school, provide equal facilities for Black children, and stop discriminating against Black children. The court ruled in favor of Bagsby and the other residents. The trustees appealed the case, claiming they arranged for local Black children to attend Lincoln High School and Wheatley Elementary School, which were not in the district. The court found that Lincoln High and Wheatley Elementary were better schools than Kirby. They were also just as good or better than the local white schools. Further, transportation to Lincoln would be provided for free. Because separate but equal educational opportunities were made available, the court ruled that there was no evidence of prejudice by the trustees. They reversed the lower court's ruling, and the residents of the district lost the case.