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Letter To The Editor, Arthur R. Landever
Letter To The Editor, Arthur R. Landever
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Arthur Landever responds to a letter favoring segregation in the Newark Evening News.
The Effect Of Social Classes On The Community And Schools Of Clinton, Tennessee, Robert N. Shumate
The Effect Of Social Classes On The Community And Schools Of Clinton, Tennessee, Robert N. Shumate
Masters Theses
This problem was selected as a subject for research in connection with an effort to determine the extent and nature of the effect of social classes on the town and community of Clinton, Tennessee. It was assumed that social classes do have an effect on the community, and that the influences exerted upon the town and community because of pressure of social classes were significant and noticeable to one who puts forth the effort to make a study and an analysis of the situation. It was also assumed that these influences have a direct bearing on the life of the …
The Fourteenth Amendment Reconsidered, The Segregation Question, Alfred H. Kelly
The Fourteenth Amendment Reconsidered, The Segregation Question, Alfred H. Kelly
Michigan Law Review
Some sixty years ago in Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court of the United States adopted the now celebrated "separate but equal" doctrine as a constitutional guidepost for state segregation statutes. Justice Brown's opinion declared that state statutes imposing racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment, provided only that the statute in question guaranteed equal facilities for the two races. Brown's argument rested on a historical theory of the intent, although he offered no evidence to support it. "The object of the amendment," he said, "was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, …
Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - Legality Of Plans For Maintaining School Segregation, John B. Huck
Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - Legality Of Plans For Maintaining School Segregation, John B. Huck
Michigan Law Review
On May 19, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that segregation in public schools was a denial of equal protection of the law. Since that date many and varied plans have been proposed to maintain segregated education by avoiding the impact of the decision. The legality of three of these proposed avoidance devices will be analyzed in this comment.
Letter From Pocahontas Hagy To Editor Of Bismarck Tribune, Submitted To The Congressional Record By Representative Burdick, May 7, 1956, Pocahontas Hagy
Letter From Pocahontas Hagy To Editor Of Bismarck Tribune, Submitted To The Congressional Record By Representative Burdick, May 7, 1956, Pocahontas Hagy
Usher Burdick Papers
This letter to the editor published in the Bismarck (North Dakota) Tribune was written by Pocahontas Hagy of Abingdon, Virginia, and submitted by United States (US) Representative Usher Burdick into the Congressional Record on May 7, 1956. The letter asks: if segregation is unconstitutional, why are Indigenous people segregated onto reservations with few resources? The letter admonishes the way white men have treated Indigenous people in the United States. The letter calls for a righting of wrongs perpetrated.
Statement On Communist Involvement With Integration, Strom Thurmond
Statement On Communist Involvement With Integration, Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond Collection, Mss 100
No abstract provided.
Statement Regarding Public Sentiment And Integration, Strom Thurmond
Statement Regarding Public Sentiment And Integration, Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond Collection, Mss 100
No abstract provided.
Segregation In Transportation: Substantive And Remedial Problem
Segregation In Transportation: Substantive And Remedial Problem
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Law - Interstate Commerce - Validity Of Segregation In Interstate Railway Facilities, Robert W. Steele
Constitutional Law - Interstate Commerce - Validity Of Segregation In Interstate Railway Facilities, Robert W. Steele
Michigan Law Review
The defendant, St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company, maintained separate accommodations in railway coaches and terminal waiting-rooms for white and Negro passengers. Section 3 (1) of the Interstate Commerce Act makes it unlawful for a rail carrier to subject any person to any unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage. Plaintiff association joined with seventeen individual parties in filing a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission charging the carrier with violating the provisions of this act and in seeking an order requiring it to cease and desist from using these discriminatory practices. Held, assignment of accommodations on the basis of race …
The Vanguard (Vol. 3, No. 3), Apr 1956, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America
The Vanguard (Vol. 3, No. 3), Apr 1956, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America
The Vanguard
Each summer since 1950 an Institute on Human Relations (race relations) has been held on the campus of Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana. The Institute this year is scheduled for July 13-15.