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Special Communication: The Jacksonville Human Relations Story With Reference To The Riots Of August 27, 1960., The Northeast Florida Council Of Human Relations

Textual material from the Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Papers

A special communication asking responsible citizens in Jacksonville to get involved in civil rights and explain what happened during the Jacksonville Race Riots in August, 1960. Dated: September, 1960

Report Of Jacksonville, Florida By Rodney Hurst. From The Papers Of The Naacp, Rodney Lawrence Hurst

Textual material from the Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Papers

Hurst's report on Ax Handle Saturday, NAACP, and other civil rights activities. August, 1960. Part 20, reel 6. Box 1, Folder 3

Greenberg: Race Relations And American Law, Spencer L. Kimball

Michigan Law Review

A Review of RACE RELATIONS AND AMERICAN LAW. By Jack Greenberg.

A Variety Of Freedoms, Stanley D. Rose

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Conceptions of Freedom By Mortimer J. Adler Institute of Philosophical Research. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co. 1958. Pp.xxvii, 689. $7.50 . . .

Each year a number of books appear which are devoted to the subject of freedom. This has been going on for at least two thousand years. But a reading of only a few of this multitude of volumes will show that one man's freedom is not necessarily another man's. It appears obvious that some order and classification ought to be introduced into our thinking about this …

Social Science Testimony In The Desegregation Cases - A Reply To Professor Kenneth Clark, Ernest Van Den Haag

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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The Desegregation Cases: Criticism Of The Social Scientist's Role, Kenneth B. Clark

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Chafee, Jr.: The Blessings Of Liberty, Nathaniel Nathanson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Blessings of Liberty. By Zechariah Chafee, Jr.

Constitutional Law- Zoning - Private High Schools Excluded From Zone In Which Public High Schools Permitted, William D. Keeler S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Among the uses permitted in the "A" residence zone by the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin zoning ordinance were "(e) Public Schools and Private Elementary Schools." The city building inspector denied to plaintiff, a private, non-profit religious corporation, a permit for the construction of a private high school in that zone. Plaintiff brought an action in mandamus to compel the issuance of such a permit, alleging that the ordinance deprived plaintiff of property without due process of law, and denied to it the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The lower court granted the writ. On appeal, held, …

Segregation In Public Education: The Decline Of Plessy V. Ferguson, Paul G. Kauper

Michigan Law Review

In the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson decided in 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States gave its sanction to the "separate but equal" doctrine in the interpretation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. More particularly, the Court held that a state statute requiring racial segregation in railway service did not result in a denial of the equal protection of the laws. This decision did not go unchallenged. Kentucky-born Justice John Harlan remonstrated in a dissenting opinion of extraordinary force. Crying out like a lone voice in the wilderness he predicted that the judgment declared …

Recognition Of Validity And Incidents Of Marriages Between Blacks And Whites, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Powell Writings

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Trial Of John R. Buzzell, Lemuel Shaw Ll.D.

The Trial of Buzzell

Trial of John R. Buzzell, The Leader of the Convent Rioters, for Arson and Burglary.

Committed on the Night of the 11^th of August, 1834. By the Destruction of the Convent on Mount Benedict, in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Containing the Arguments of Counsel, Judges Charge, &c.

On the night August 11^th, 1834 John R. Buzzell and eleven others were alleged to have broken into and ransacked the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Afterwards the mob set fire to the Convent, which subsequently left the Convent building a hollow shell of its former self. In early December of that …