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After working as a clerk for the Works Progress Administration in Michigan and completing a master's degree in economics, Gaines returned to Missouri in anticipation of the proceedings there, set to begin in August.

The Missouri legislature hastily passed a bill appropriating $ 275, 000 ($ in modern dollars ) to convert an old beauty school in St. Louis into the new Lincoln University School of Law, in the hope that would satisfy the court.

The NAACP planned to challenge the establishment of the new law school as still inadequate compared to the resources of the existing University of Missouri School of Law.

Gaines, who would still need to pay his law school tuition as well as his daily living expenses, looked for work in the meantime.

Between the continuing Depression and segregation, he had to settle for work at a gas station.

He gave speeches to local NAACP chapters and church groups for donations, telling them " I am ready, willing and able to enroll in the law department at the University of Missouri in September, and I have the fullest intention of doing so ," but still had to borrow money from his brother George for everyday expenses.