AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  In re Young 29 Misc.2d 817, Supreme Court, New York County, New York, Special Term, Part I (1/26/1961) Contempt proceeding. The Supreme Court, Irving H. Saypol, J., held that respondent who knew of order enjoining the coercing of liquor stores to buy from Negro salesmen was guilty of... 1961 Trial Court Orders Yes  
  Jeffers V. Whitley 197 F.Supp. 84, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division, Docket Number CIV. 1079-G (8/4/1961) Class action on behalf of minor public school pupils of the Negro race to compel the desegregation of the Caswell County, North Carolina, public school system. The District Court, Edwin M. Stanley, Chief Judge, held that pupils who failed to personally attend an administrative hearing with respect to their applications for transfers failed to... 1961 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Kates V. Lefkowitz 28 Misc.2d 210, Supreme Court, New York County, New York, Special Term, Part I (6/19/1961) Proceedings on application to vacate subpoena issued by Attorney General for purpose of conducting inquiry based upon complaint by Negro woman that applicants had refused to rent vacant apartment to her. The Special Term, Abraham N. Geller, J., held that an agreement among apartment owners not to rent to Negroes might fall within prohibition of... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Kates V. Lefkowitz 28 Misc.2d 210, Supreme Court, New York County, New York, Special Term, Part I (6/19/1961) Proceedings on application to vacate subpoena issued by Attorney General for purpose of conducting inquiry based upon complaint by Negro woman that applicants had refused to rent vacant... 1961 Trial Court Orders Yes  
  Kennard V. State 242 Miss. 691, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 41890 (4/3/1961) The defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court, Forrest County, Stanton A. Hall, J., of burglary, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Gillespie, J., held that the evidence of the defendant was insufficient to establish his charge that he was denied due process and equal protection of the laws on ground that Negroes were systematically excluded... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Lewis V. Greyhound Corp. 199 F.Supp. 210, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1724-N (11/1/1961) Action to enjoin motor carriers and others from pursuing a policy of segregating plaintiffs and members of their class on motor carriers and for other relief. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that evidence established that motor carriers were maintaining and utilizing separate facilities for use of white and colored races in Alabama in their... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Louisiana State Bd. Of Ed. V. Allen 287 F.2d 32, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 18522 (2/9/1961) Class suit by Negross alleging that a state board of education had refused to admit them as students in trade schools because of their race and color. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, J. Skelly Wright, J., entered a summary judgment for the plaintiffs, and the board appealed. The Court of Appeals held that no... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Louisiana State Bd. Of Ed. V. Angel 287 F.2d 33, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 18521 (2/9/1961) Suit to enjoin a state board of education from excluding the Negro plaintiffs and other Negroes from trade schools operated by the board because of their race and color. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, J. Skelly Wright, J., granted an injunction, and the board appealed. The Court of Appeals held that the suit... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Mcneese V. Board of Ed. For Community School Dist. No. 187 199 F.Supp. 403, United States District Court E. D. Illinois, Docket Number CIV. 4868 (11/22/1961) Action for relief against alleged school segregation. The District Court, Juergens, J., held that plaintiffs could not sue to desegregate Illinois school without first seeking relief under Illinois statute providing for hearing on segregation claims, although plaintiffs alleged that statute was inadequate, and it required 50 signatures on complaint... 1961 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Meredith V. Fair 199 F.Supp. 754, United States District Court S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division, Docket Number CIV. 3130 (12/12/1961) Action brought by member of Negro race for injunctive relief against refusing him admission to state university and for declaratory judgment. On plaintiff's motion for a temporary injunction and to set the case for final hearing, the District Court, Mize, Chief Judge, held that evidence adduced established that plaintiff was not denied admission to... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Morrow V. Mecklenburg County Bd. Of Ed. 195 F.Supp. 109, United States District Court W.D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division, Docket Number CIV.1415 (6/15/1961) Suit instituted by fathers of Negro children seeking to enjoin a county board of education from refusing to reassign them to certain schools within the board's jurisdiction, allegedly on account of their race and color. The District Court, Warlick, Chief Judge, held that the evidence was insufficient to show any unconstitutional administration of... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Norwood V. Tucker 287 F.2d 798, United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 16586 (3/2/1961) Class proceeding on motion for further relief against alleged school segregation. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Western Division, John E. Miller, Chief Judge, 186 F.Supp. 913, denied relief, and the plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, Matteres, Circuit Judge, held that procedures whereby the Little... 1961 Cases Yes  
  O'meara V. Washington State Bd. Against Discrimination 58 Wash.2d 793, Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc, Docket Number 35436 (9/29/1961) Landowners refused to sell their home to a Negro, and, when the Washington Board Against Discrimination ordered them to do so, they appealed to the Superior Court. The Superior Court, King County, James W. Hodson, J., rendered a judgment adverse to the board, and it appealed. The Supreme Court held that the statute providing that there shall be no... 1961 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  People V. Wilson 31 Misc.2d 136, County Court, Oneida County, New York (9/25/1961) Proceeding by a prisoner of the Negro race serving a sentence for first degree manslaughter for a writ of error coram nobis. The County Court, Oneida County, John J. Walsh, J., held that mere fact that no member of defendant's race served on the jury or was summoned to serve on the jury panel did not constitute a denial of the equal protection of... 1961 Cases Yes  
  People V. Wilson 31 Misc.2d 136, County Court, Oneida County, New York (9/25/1961) Proceeding by a prisoner of the Negro race serving a sentence for first degree manslaughter for a writ of error coram nobis. The County Court, Oneida County, John J. Walsh, J., held that... 1961 Trial Court Orders Yes  
  Petitioner's Reply Brief, Anderson V. Alabama Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 326 (4/21/1961) Faced with a record which demonstrates that no Negro has ever served on a petit jury in the history of Dallas County, and that in all recorded history there has been only one Negro who, on... 1961 Briefs Yes  
  Randolph V. Commonwealth 202 Va. 661, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (4/24/1961) Defendant was convicted in the Hustings Court of The City of Richmond, W. Moscoe Huntley, J., of trespass, and he brought error. The Supreme Court of Appeals, Eggleston, C. J., held that action of department store owner in refusing to serve Negro in restaurant and forbidding him to remain on premises did not violate constitutional rights, and... 1961 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Sawyer V. City of Mobile, Ala. 208 F.Supp. 548, United States District Court, S.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1999 (3/13/1961) Action by Negro resident taxpayers of a city, for themselves and other Negroes similarly situated, for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief in regard to their right to play golf on a golf course owned and maintained by the city. The District Court, Daniel Holcombe Thomas, J., held that Negroes who were denied opportunity to play golf on... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Shuttlesworth V. Gaylord 202 F.Supp. 59, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 9505 (11/8/1961) Action for injunction restraining city officials from continuing to enforce policy requiring racial segregation in public recreational facilities owned and operated by city or owned and leased by city to private persons. The District Court, Grooms, J., held that discrimination in use and enjoyment of public recreational facilities of any kind or... 1961 Cases Yes  
Elizabeth S. Landis South African Apartheid Legislation I: Fundamental Structure 71 Yale Law Journal 1 (November, 1961) Throughout the world the integration of repressed and segregated racial and religious groups into the community is being fostered by modern legal theory and political philosophythroughout the world, that is, except the Union of South Africa. There this almost universal trend has not merely been rejected, but a counter-philosophy has been developed... 1961 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  St. Helena Parish School Bd. V. Hall 287 F.2d 376, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 18523 (2/9/1961) Action by Negro students against parish school board and superintendent of parish schools for injunction against further operation of public schools on racially segregated basis. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, J. Skelly Wright, J., rendered judgment granting relief and the defendants appealed. The Court of... 1961 Cases Yes  
William W. Van Alstyne , Kenneth L. Karst State Action 14 Stanford Law Review 3 (December, 1961) Not since the Civil War has the demand for racial equality pressed down on the national conscience so heavily as during this past decade. And not since the era of Reconstruction have the federal courts been called upon so frequently to establish constitutional standards for racial equality. The framing of the judicial response to this demand is... 1961 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  State Bd. Of Public Welfare V. Myers 224 Md. 246, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 162 (2/7/1961) Action for judgment declaring invalidity of statutes providing for recial segregation in state training school. The Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Charles E. Moylan, J., entered a decree from which defendants appealed. The Court of Appeals, Henderson, J., held that statutes providing for racial segregation in state training schools violated the... 1961 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  State Power to Realign Political Subdivisions Held Limited by Fifteenth Amendment 109 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1173 (June, 1961) Petitioners, Negroes and former residents of the city of Tuskegee, Alabama, sought a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief in federal district court, claiming that an Alabama statute redefining the boundaries of the city of Tuskegee violated the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the Constitution. The complaint alleged that the statute... 1961 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  State V. Williams 253 N.C. 804, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 440 (1/20/1961) Prosecution for trespass. The Superior Court, Union County, Frank M. Armstrong, J., rendered judgment on verdict of guilty, and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Parker, J., held that rights guaranteed by Fifth Amendment, U.S.C.A. Const. Amend 5, are not violated by refusal to serve Negro at privately owned lunch counter or by prosecution of... 1961 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  State V. Wilson 240 La. 1087, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 45344 (2/15/1961) Prosecution for aggravated rape. The Twenty-First Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa, F. E. Burch, J., entered judgment of conviction and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Hamlin, J., held that Negro defendant was not prejudiced by the overruling of his objections to the general venire and tales jurors, on ground that members of the... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Taylor V. Board of Ed. Of City School Dist. Of City of New Rochelle 288 F.2d 600, United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, Docket Number 26901 (4/13/1961) Action by Negro children, through their parents, for declaratory and injunctive relief against a school board, relating to its operation of an elementary school system. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Irving R. Kaufman, J., 191 F.Supp. 181, rendered an opinion holding plaintiffs' rights to have been violated... 1961 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Taylor V. Board of Ed. Of City School Dist. Of City of New Rochelle 191 F.Supp. 181, United States District Court S.D. New York (1/24/1961) Negro students brought a class action against the board of education of a city school district and the superintendent of schools of the city to restrain the board and superintendent from proceeding with the construction of a new school, and to enjoin the board from refusing to allow the Negro students to register in schools, which were not racially... 1961 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Taylor V. Board of Ed. Of City School Dist. Of City of New Rochelle 195 F.Supp. 231, United States District Court S.D. New York (5/31/1961) Negro students brought a class action against the board of education of a city school district and the superintendent of schools of the city to restrain the board and superintendent from proceeding with the construction of a new school, and to enjoin the board from refusing to allow Negro students to register in schools, which were not racially... 1961 Cases Yes  
  Taylor V. Board of Ed. Of City School Dist. Of City of New Rochelle 294 F.2d 36, United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, Docket Number 27055, 427 (8/2/1961) Suit by Negro children to enjoin the defendants from requiring plaintiffs to be registered in a racially segregated public elementary school and to require them to register plaintiffs in a public elementary school that is racially integrated. From a decree of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Irving R. Kaufman,... 1961 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
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