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Constitutional Law-Interstate Commerce-Carriers-Validity Of State Statute Requiring Racial Segregation Of Passengers, George Brody S.Ed. Dec 1946

Constitutional Law-Interstate Commerce-Carriers-Validity Of State Statute Requiring Racial Segregation Of Passengers, George Brody S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Appellant, a passenger on a motor common carrier, was traveling from Virginia to Baltimore. Pursuant to a Virginia statute requiring all passenger motor carrier vehicles to "separate without discrimination the white and colored passengers in their motor busses so that contiguous seats will not be occupied by persons of different races at the same time" the driver of the carrier upon which appellant was traveling requested her to vacate her seat so that it could be used by a white passenger. She refused and was arrested and convicted under authority of a statute punishing such refusal. The Virginia Supreme Court …

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Federal Courts--Jury Selection--Exclusion Of Wage Earners, John R. Dykema Dec 1946

Federal Courts--Jury Selection--Exclusion Of Wage Earners, John R. Dykema

Michigan Law Review

In an action for personal injuries, removed to a federal court, petitioner, a salesman, demanded a jury trial. He moved to strike out the entire panel, alleging that "mostly business executives or those having the employer's viewpoint are purposely selected on said panel . . . [thus] discriminating against other occupations and classes." The evidence showed that the clerk of the court and the jury commissioner had as a matter of practice excluded from the jury list all persons working for a daily wage. They gave as their reason the fact that such persons, called for jury service, invariably requested …

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Constitutional Law—Validity Of State Statute Requiring Racial Segregation Of Passengers In Interstate Commerce. [United States Supreme Court], John L. Dorsey Jr. Sep 1946

Constitutional Law—Validity Of State Statute Requiring Racial Segregation Of Passengers In Interstate Commerce. [United States Supreme Court], John L. Dorsey Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Property—Effect Of Change Of Neighborhood On Enforceability Of Covenants Restraining Alienation To Negroes. [North Carolina], Francis W. Flannagan Sep 1946

Property—Effect Of Change Of Neighborhood On Enforceability Of Covenants Restraining Alienation To Negroes. [North Carolina], Francis W. Flannagan

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Constitutional Law-Protection Of Civil Liberties-Federal Criminal Prosecution Of State Police Officers-Constitutionality And Construction Of Section 20 Of Criminal Code, George Brody Apr 1946

Constitutional Law-Protection Of Civil Liberties-Federal Criminal Prosecution Of State Police Officers-Constitutionality And Construction Of Section 20 Of Criminal Code, George Brody

Michigan Law Review

In United States v. Classic the Civil Liberties Unit of the Department of Justice resurrected the long dormant section 20 of the United States criminal code to prosecute successfully election officials in Louisiana for altering and falsely counting ballots cast in a Louisiana primary for representatives to Congress. Although the acts of the defendants were also in violation of state law the court asserted that "misuse of power possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because the wrongdoer is clothed with authority of state law, is action taken under color of state law" and therefore within the …

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The Education Of The Negro In Missouri, Robert Irving Brigham Jan 1946

The Education Of The Negro In Missouri, Robert Irving Brigham

Books Related to Race and Education in Missouri

Dissertation by Dr. Brigham written in 1946 in support of his doctoral degree from the University of Missouri in which he discusses the historical evolution of education for African Americans in Missouri. Digital copy is derived from print copy held in the University of Missouri Library Depository

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The Divided Supreme Court, 1944-1945, C. Herman Pritchett Dec 1945

The Divided Supreme Court, 1944-1945, C. Herman Pritchett

Michigan Law Review

The United States Supreme Court has in recent years been supplying fascinating material for students interested in the interplay of personal and institutional factors in the judicial decision-making process. Contrary to the more restrictive practices of some other legal systems, the traditions of the American judiciary have never insisted that justices sitting en banc should hide the existence of division among themselves behind a facade of pretended unanimity. Justices who dissent from a decision of their brethren have been permitted to say so, and to give their reasons. This practice has had an immeasurably great effect in facilitating the growth …

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Apportionment Of Representation In The Legislature: A Study Of State Constitutions, Elizabeth Durfee Jun 1945

Apportionment Of Representation In The Legislature: A Study Of State Constitutions, Elizabeth Durfee

Michigan Law Review

This paper is concerned with the rules found in our state constitutions for apportionment of representation in the state legislature. It does not attempt to solve the problems of high-tension politics that are involved in the making and remaking of such rules; it goes no deeper than an exposition of existing rules. Even on this level it is not exhaustive. Since the constitutions exhibit manifold variations, from simple directions which are scarcely more than a declaration of policy to complex rules for the formation of districts, no attempt will be made to classify all the different types of provisions. With …

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The Constitution Of The State Of Missouri : Adopted By The People On February 27, 1945, With Annotations And Appendix Comparing The Provisions Therein With The Provisions In The Constitution Of 1875, As Amended And In Force On That Date / Compiled And Edited By Lester G. Seacat, 1945. Feb 1945

The Constitution Of The State Of Missouri : Adopted By The People On February 27, 1945, With Annotations And Appendix Comparing The Provisions Therein With The Provisions In The Constitution Of 1875, As Amended And In Force On That Date / Compiled And Edited By Lester G. Seacat, 1945.

Missouri Constitutional Sections Related to Race and Education

No abstract provided.

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The Privilege Of A Negro Citizen To Vote In A Primary Jan 1945

The Privilege Of A Negro Citizen To Vote In A Primary

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Constitutional Law

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Constitutional Law-Congressional Primaries-Voting Rights Of Negroes, Everett S. Brown Apr 1944

Constitutional Law-Congressional Primaries-Voting Rights Of Negroes, Everett S. Brown

Michigan Law Review

The petitioner, Lonnie E. Smith, a Negro citizen of Harris County, Texas, brought suit for damages against election judges who refused to give him a ballot or to permit him to cast a ballot in the primary election of July 27, 1940, for the nomination of Democratic candidates for federal and state officers. The refusal was alleged to have been solely because of Smith's race and color and consequently violated sections 31 and 43 of title 8 of the United States Code by depriving Smith of rights secured under provisions of the Federal Constitution. The District Court of the United …

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Covenants-Restrictions Upon The Use Of Land-Negroes Apr 1944

Covenants-Restrictions Upon The Use Of Land-Negroes

Michigan Law Review

Many years ago a subdivision in Detroit was platted, with recorded building restrictions. When ready for the sale of lots, the intended high character of the subdivision and its desirability for expensive residences was much advertised. An association, an informal organization of some of the owners of houses in the subdivision, assumed the right to pass upon the desirability of prospective lot purchasers, and there was some indication that the person who advertised and marketed most of the lots verbally agreed to submit to the association the names of prospective purchasers and assured some intending purchasers that colored persons would …

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Updating Resources Jan 1944

Updating Resources

Research in Virgil Hawkins' World of Print--Historical Print Research Project No. 1: Abortion

Next, the student would check the pocket part to the volume of the Florida Statutes Annotated that they were using for entries on both F.S. § 782.10 and F.S. § 797.01, thereby ensuring that they were seeing the most current information

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Florida Statutes Annotated Jan 1944

Florida Statutes Annotated

Research in Virgil Hawkins' World of Print--Historical Print Research Project No. 1: Abortion

The Attorney General of Florida, pursuant to the legislative mandate expressed in the Act approved May 25, 1939, Laws 1939, c. 19140, has prepared a "revision, compilation and consolidation of all the General Statutes of Florida in force, of a permanent nature" which, by Act approved June 6, 1941, Laws 1941, c. 20719, except as otherwise provided therein, was "adopted and enacted as statute law" under the title of Florida Statutes 1941.

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Courts - Federal Courts - Diversity Of Citizenship Requirement - Persons Evacuated To Other States By Government Order, Michigan Law Review Oct 1943

Courts - Federal Courts - Diversity Of Citizenship Requirement - Persons Evacuated To Other States By Government Order, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiffs were United States citizens of Japanese ancestry domiciled in California. By order of the Western Defense Command, United States Army, they were removed to the Gila River Relocation Center, Arizona. Defendants were residents of California. After their relocation plaintiffs brought this action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California "to terminate trust, for an accounting, and for appointment of a receiver," and jurisdiction of the federal court was based solely on allegations of diversity of citizenship. Held, action dismissed for want of jurisdiction. A person moving under legal or physical compulsion, from his …

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Discretionary Action Of Park Board In Excluding Negro Golfers Not Subject To Mandamus - Board Of Park Commissioners Of Baltimore City V. Murphy Jan 1943

Discretionary Action Of Park Board In Excluding Negro Golfers Not Subject To Mandamus - Board Of Park Commissioners Of Baltimore City V. Murphy

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Torts - Wrongful Exclusion From An Elevator - Damages For Mental Pain And Humiliation, Michigan Law Review Jun 1942

Torts - Wrongful Exclusion From An Elevator - Damages For Mental Pain And Humiliation, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff's wife, a Caucasian, having business with a tenant on the fifteenth floor, entered defendant's elevator containing other whites. She and a Negro woman were directed by the operator to take an elevator in the rear of the store used for freight and Negro passengers; and being ignorant of this latter fact, she used this elevator. Asserting that she was wrongfully excluded from the elevator for white people and thereby was considered to be a negro by both whites and colored people, she claimed to have suffered mental anguish, humiliation, and physical suffering. Held, the defendant, while not a …

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The Virginia Bill Of Rights, Leonard C. Helderman Mar 1942

The Virginia Bill Of Rights, Leonard C. Helderman

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Effect Of Mitchell Vs. United States On The Duty Of The Common Carrier In Kentucky Toward The Negro Passenger, Scott D. Breckinridge Jr. Jan 1942

Effect Of Mitchell Vs. United States On The Duty Of The Common Carrier In Kentucky Toward The Negro Passenger, Scott D. Breckinridge Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Carriers - Common Carriers - Segregation Of Races - Discrimination, John C. Johnston Jun 1941

Carriers - Common Carriers - Segregation Of Races - Discrimination, John C. Johnston

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a negro, had purchased a railroad ticket entitling him to first class accommodations from Chicago, Illinois to Hot Springs, Arkansas. When the train entered Arkansas, the conductor, in purported compliance with an Arkansas statute requiring segregation of colored from white persons forced plaintiff to leave the Pullman car and ride in the second-class car set aside for colored passengers. Plaintiff alleged that this car was not equipped with the same conveniences which were provided for white passengers traveling first class, and he filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission claiming that he had been discriminated against in violation …

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Parties - Representative Suits As Res Judicata- Rejection Of Doctrine Of Class Suits In Successive Actions To Enforce Mutual Covenants In Land, Gerald M. Lively Mar 1941

Parties - Representative Suits As Res Judicata- Rejection Of Doctrine Of Class Suits In Successive Actions To Enforce Mutual Covenants In Land, Gerald M. Lively

Michigan Law Review

Some 500 frontage owners in a certain described residential district entered into mutual covenants which stipulated against the sale to, or occupation of, such land by negroes. In an action to enjoin a breach of one of these covenants the defense was asserted that a condition precedent requiring ninety-five per cent of the frontage owners to sign the agreement had not been performed. On a trial of the merits it was found that only about fifty-four per cent of the frontage owners had actually signed. However, in a prior action, an owner, on behalf of herself and other like property …

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Race Segregation In Cities, Major Gardner Jan 1941

Race Segregation In Cities, Major Gardner

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Federal Courts - Jurisdiction Over Violations Of Civil Liberties By State Governments And By Private Individuals, Eugene Gressman Dec 1940

Federal Courts - Jurisdiction Over Violations Of Civil Liberties By State Governments And By Private Individuals, Eugene Gressman

Michigan Law Review

The long-term security of civil liberties in the United States must in the end depend upon the spirit and attitude of the public. Many violations of these rights never reach the stage of justiciable issues. But even when they do, public sentiment is often reflected in the courts. Especially is this true in the state courts, which are often too near local prejudices and entrenched mores to withstand their effect. This situation was recognized as long ago as the Reconstruction Era, when the various civil rights acts provided for federal protection of civil liberties. Apparently it was felt that from …

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A Lawyer Looks At Liberty, Clarence E. Manion Oct 1940

A Lawyer Looks At Liberty, Clarence E. Manion

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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National Defense And Individual Liberties, Wilbur G. Katz Oct 1940

National Defense And Individual Liberties, Wilbur G. Katz

Indiana Law Journal

Dean Wilber G. Katz, University of Chicago Law School at the annual banquet of the Indiana State Bar Association, Fort Wayne, August 24, 1940.

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Missouri Supreme Court; Respondents' Brief On Second Hearing; May Term 1939 May 1939

Missouri Supreme Court; Respondents' Brief On Second Hearing; May Term 1939

Case Materials

No abstract provided.

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Letter, 1939-03-03, Lloyd Gaines To Callie Gaines; This Letter Is The Last Contact With His Family Before His Disappearance., Lloyd L. Gaines Mar 1939

Letter, 1939-03-03, Lloyd Gaines To Callie Gaines; This Letter Is The Last Contact With His Family Before His Disappearance., Lloyd L. Gaines

Gaines Family Correspondence

Envelope: Postmarked March 4th, 1939, Chicago, ILL., Stock Yards Sta.1; cancelled 3 cent stamp. Return address: LLGaines, Room 203, Wabash Ave. YMCA, Chicago Illinois. Addressed to: Mr. Callie S. Gaines, 3932 W. Belle Place, St. Louis, Missouri. Letter:8 pages (mis-numbered). This letter is the last contact with his family before his disappearance.

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Constitutional Law - Equal Protection Of The Laws - Exclusion Of Negro From Law School Of State University, Fred C. Newman Feb 1939

Constitutional Law - Equal Protection Of The Laws - Exclusion Of Negro From Law School Of State University, Fred C. Newman

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner, a negro, was refused admission to the law school of the State University of Missouri solely upon the ground of his race. While the state of Missouri assumed to provide reasonable tuition fees for the legal education of negro residents of Missouri in other states and possibly contemplated providing opportunities for professional training for negroes within the state at some future date, it did not provide for any instruction in law for negroes within the state. The Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed the judgment of the circuit court quashing an alternative writ of mandamus and denying a peremptory writ …

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Constitutional Law--Fourteenth Amendment--Racial Segregation For The Purposes Of Education, John B. Breckinridge Jan 1939

Constitutional Law--Fourteenth Amendment--Racial Segregation For The Purposes Of Education, John B. Breckinridge

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Municipal Corporations - Official Misconduct As Ground For Removal Of Officer, Leonard D. Verdier Jr. Dec 1938

Municipal Corporations - Official Misconduct As Ground For Removal Of Officer, Leonard D. Verdier Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a member of the council of the city of Highland Park, Michigan, was removed by the council, as provided in the charter because of membership in the Black Legion. The Black Legion was a secret society founded on principles of racial, religious, and political discrimination. Its members took an oath to further these purposes by any means ordered by the officers of the organization, including violence and terrorism. Members were forbidden to expose the organization under penalty of death, and membership was supposedly permanent. The council found that membership in such a society rendered Wilson incompetent to perform the …

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