Yvonne Moses was a public school student in the District of Columbia’s Division 2, which was set up just for Black students. There was only one elementary school in Division 2, Daniel Payne School. This school was housed in an old, eight-room building with no auditorium, cafeteria, or multiple-purpose facilities. Due to overcrowding, the school board instructed Moses to attend Webb School, which was nearly a mile away from Payne and many blocks from her home. Moses had to walk across three dangerous highways to get to Webb. On her way, she passed three modern all-white schools. Moses sued Superintendent Hobart Corning, and other school officials, claiming she was being discriminated against because of her race and asking that segregation be forbidden in schools. The court noted that while there were better all-white facilities in the area surrounding the Payne and Webb schools, there were similar eight-room facilities for white students elsewhere in the District of Columbia. Black students were not the only ones being housed in older, too-small buildings. Further, the court ruled that the segregated schools were constitutional because they offered equal educational opportunities. For these reasons, Moses lost the case.