AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  State V. Brownridge 353 S.W.2d 715, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1, Docket Number 48607 (2/12/1962) Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Robert J. Kirkwood, J., of forcible rape, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Norwin D. Houser, C., held that there was no deprivation of constitutional rights of defendant, in selection of jury by reason of fact there were 56 Caucasians and only four Negroes on the petit jury... 1962 Cases Yes  
  State V. Clark 242 La. 914, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 45888 (3/26/1962) Defendant was convicted in the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Plaquemines, Bruce Nunez, J., of aggravated rape and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Hawthorne, J., held that fact that district attorney peremptorily challenged some Negroes who were called for jury duty did not of itself show systematic discrimination where district... 1962 Cases Yes  
  State V. David 2 Conn.Cir.Ct. 199, Circuit Court of Connecticut, Appellate Division, Docket Number CR 4-0958 (9/14/1962) Prosecution on information charging breach of peace and resisting arrest. Defendant was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court, Fourth Circuit, Daly, J., and he appealed. The Appellate Division, Pruyn, J., held that where there was no systematic or deliberate exclusion of Negroes from the jury panel, and no discrimination, the selection of the... 1962 Cases Yes  
  State V. Goree 242 La. 886, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 45745 (3/26/1962) Prosecution for battery with a dangerous weapon. The Third Judicial District Court, Lincoln Parish, J. R. Dawkins, J., entered judgment of conviction, and the defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Summers, J., held that evidence established that there had been systematic exclusion of Negroes from jury list despite eligibility of Negroes for jury... 1962 Cases Yes  
  State V. Mack 243 La. 369, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 46027 (6/29/1962) Defendants were convicted in the Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberia Rene H. Himel, J., of murder, and they appealed. The Supreme Court, Sanders, J., held that where registered voters in parish numbered 21,023, of which 4,427 were Negroes, and 124 Negroes were included in jury pool of 835 drawn indiscriminately from registration... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Stewart V. Henslee 206 F.Supp. 137, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number LR 62 C 22 (6/12/1962) A Negro, who had been convicted of murder, brought a habeas corpus proceeding against the Superintendent of the Arkansas State Penitentiary. The District Court, Young, J., held that the record established that members of Negro race were deliberately and intentionally limited in the selection of petit jury panels in violation of the federal... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Stone V. Members of Bd. Of Ed. Of City of Atlanta, Ga. 309 F.2d 638, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19537 (11/16/1962) School desegregation suit wherein the city board of education petitioned the court for directions in view of a conflict between an order of the court, 188 F.Supp. 401, and an order of the State Board of Education. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Frank A. Hooper, J., after making the members of the State order,... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Swann V. Burkett 209 Cal.App.2d 685, District Court of Appeal, First District, Division 1, California, Docket Number CIV. 20464 (11/19/1962) Suit to recover damages because defendants refused to rent one of its units to plaintiffs solely because the plaintiffs were Negroes. From a judgment of nonsuit of the Municipal Court, Berkeley-Albany Judicial District in and for the County of Alameda, Redmond C. Staats, Jr., J., plaintiffs appealed to the Appellate Department of the Superior Court... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Taylor V. State of La. 370 U.S. 154, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 773 (6/4/1962) Prosecutions for disturbing the peace. From judgments of conviction defendants appealed and the Louisiana Supreme Court declined to review their convictions. On certiorari, the Supreme Court held that where the only evidence to support charge of violation of Louisiana breach of peace statute was that Negroes were violating a custom that segregated... 1962 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
Michael I. Sovern The National Labor Relations Act and Racial Discrimination 62 Columbia Law Review 563 (April, 1962) When the United States Commission on Civil Rights completed its recent study of discrimination in employment, its findings began on the same depressing note sounded by virtually every student of the problem since the end of slavery: [N]egro workers are still disproportionately concentrated in the ranks of the unskilled and semiskilled in both... 1962 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Turner V. City of Memphis, Tenn. 369 U.S. 350, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 84 (3/26/1962) Action by a Negro to permanently enjoin city and its tenant in municipal airport facilities from operating eating and rest room facilities on a racially segregated basis. The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, 199 F.Supp. 585, ordered that the action be held in abeyance pending a declaratory judgment suit brought in... 1962 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  U.s. ex Rel. Seals V. Wiman 304 F.2d 53, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19391 (5/30/1962) Habeas corpus proceeding by state prisoner who had been convicted of rape. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Seybourn H. Lynne, J., entered a judgment denying the application and the petitioner appealed. The Court of Appeals, Rives, Circuit Judge, held that because of systematic exclusion of Negroes from both... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  U.s. V. Atkins 210 F.Supp. 441, United States District Court, S.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 2584 (11/15/1962) Action by the United States under the Civil Rights Act for injunctive relief against a state and a county board of registrars in regard to racially discriminatory acts and practices in registration of voters. The District Court, Daniel Holcombe Thomas, J., held that evidence was insufficient to establish that present board members engaged in or... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  U.s. V. Bibb County Democratic Executive Committee 222 F.Supp. 493, United States District Court M.D. Georgia, Macon Division, Docket Number CIV. 1838 (6/1/1962) Action for injunctive relief against maintenance of racial distinction in regard to voting. The District Court, Bootle, Chief Judge, held that an injunction would be granted where acts and practices of defendants made distinctions in the voting process based upon race. Preliminary injunction granted in accordance with opinion. 1962 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  U.s. V. City of Jackson, Miss. 206 F.Supp. 45, United States District Court S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division, Docket Number 3247 (4/26/1962) Action by the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission against rail and bus carriers and city and its police officials questioning the right of carriers to use facilities in any way segregated. On plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, the District Court, Mize, Chief Judge, held that the evidence established that the carriers... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  U.s. V. City of Montgomery 201 F.Supp. 590, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1740-N (1/2/1962) Action by the United States to restrain defendants from violations of nondiscriminatory provisions of the Federal Aviation Act, and to remove and prevent a burden upon interstate and foreign commerce. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that action of a city in providing at an airport terminal separate waiting rooms, water fountains, restaurant... 1962 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. City of Shreveport, La. 210 F.Supp. 36, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division, Docket Number CIV. 8888 (11/2/1962) Action for injunction. The District Court, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, held that United States was entitled to injunctive relief against racial segregation of rest room and leased dining room facilities available in municipal airport for use of interstate passengers. Injunction granted. 1962 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. City of Shreveport, La. 210 F.Supp. 708, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division, Docket Number CIV. 8845 (11/16/1962) Proceeding on a motion for injunctive relief against racial segregation. The District Court, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, held that enforcement by city police of racial segregation in bus facilities, including restaurant facilities of a terminal regularly used by interstate carriers of passengers by motor vehicle, violated provisions of the... 1962 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. Dogan 206 F.Supp. 446, United States District Court N.D. Mississippi, Delta Division, Docket Number D-C-53-61 (1/20/1962) Action based on alleged discrimination against citizens of county because of race in acceptance of payments for poll tax and issuance of receipts therefor, wherein United States sought temporary injunction. The District Court, Clayton, J., held that basis for granting comprehensive temporary injunction requiring county sheriff indiscriminately to... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  U.s. V. Fox 211 F.Supp. 25, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 11625 (11/2/1962) Suit by the United States Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act brought by the Attorney General against the state of Louisiana, the registrar of voters and others, wherein plaintiff sought a preliminary and permanent injunction as well as immediate registration of all Negroes who had applied for registration since January 1953 and who possessed at time... 1962 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. Lassiter 203 F.Supp. 20, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Monroe and Alexandria Divisions, Docket Number CIV. 8567, CIV. 8612, CIV. 8593 (1/25/1962) Action by United States for injunctions to restrain enforcement of state statutes relative to segregation in waiting room facilities of common carriers. The District Court held that state statutes requiring separation of passengers according to race in terminal facilities of common carriers and posting of signs designating facilities for such... 1962 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. Manning 205 F.Supp. 172, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Monroe Division, Docket Number CIV. 8257 (5/30/1962) Action to enjoin discriminatory acts and practices in registration of voters. The District Court, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., J., held that denying Negroes the opportunity to apply for registration as a preliminary step to becoming registered voters was in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment and elective franchise statute. Decree accordingly. 1962 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. Penton 212 F.Supp. 193, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1741-N (11/20/1962) Action by the Attorney General in the name of the United States under the Civil Rights Act for injunctive relief against certain acts and practices of the defendant depriving citizens of United States residing in Montgomery County, Alabama, of the right to register to vote without discrimination because of race or color. The United States District... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Vick V. County Bd. Of Ed. Of Obion County, Tenn. 205 F.Supp. 436, United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, Eastern Division, Docket Number 1259 (6/4/1962) Action to enjoin operation of compulsory racially segregated school system. Pursuant to the court's direction, defendants presented a plan for complete desegregation of public school system. On plaintiffs' objection to such plan, the District Court, Brown, J., held that a desegregation plan giving both white and Negro students a choice as to which... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Walker V. Shaw 209 F.Supp. 569, United States District Court W.D. South Carolina, Greenville Division, Docket Number CIV. 2983 (10/17/1962) Action against city and others by Negro citizens who were denied admission to a city skating rink maintained for members of the white race. The plaintiffs moved for preliminary injunction, and the defendants moved for dismissal. The District Court, Charles Cecil Wyche, Chief Judge, held that action involving maintenance by city of segregated... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Watson V. City of Memphis, Tenn. 303 F.2d 863, United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit, Docket Number 14662 (6/12/1962) A class action was brought against the Memphis Park Commission and others for an injunction restraining the Commission and others from operating and maintaining certain public recreational facilities on a racially-segregated basis. The plaintiffs sought immediate desegregation. The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee,... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Wheeler V. Durham City Bd. Of Ed. 309 F.2d 630, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8643 (10/12/1962) Negro pupils brought actions against city board of education for injunction against continued assignment of pupils to schools on basis of race and against imposing on Negro pupils seeking reassignment criteria not applied to white pupils seeking transfers. The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Durham, Edwin... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Wheeler V. Durham City Bd. Of Ed. 210 F.Supp. 839, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Durham Division, Docket Number C-116-D-60, C-54-D-60 (4/11/1962) Class actions commenced by Negroes against city board of education to have declared the rights of minor Negroes and class of persons they represent to attend public schools without discrimination on account of race or color and for injunctive relief. The District Court, Stanley, Chief Judge, 196 F.Supp. 71, remanded the cases of some of the minor... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Williams V. Howard Johnson's Inc. of Wash. 210 F.Supp. 295, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 2432 (11/2/1962) Action against operator of private restaurant for damages based upon refusal of the restaurant manager to serve the plaintiff allegedly upon the sole ground that the plaintiff was a Negro. The District Court, Lewis, J., held that the action of the restaurant manager was neither required nor aided by state law, custom or usage, and that the... 1962 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Willie V. Harris County, Tex. 202 F.Supp. 549, United States District Court S.D. Texas, Houston Division, Docket Number CIV. 11926 (1/31/1962) Action by Negro citizens and taxpayers, for declaratory and injunctive relief, complaining of operation of public recreational facilities on a segregated basis. The District Court, Ingraham, J., held, inter alia, that plaintiffs would be permitted to maintain the action as a class action and that they were entitled to the declaratory and injunctive... 1962 Cases Yes  
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