AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Dawley V. City of Norfolk, Va. 159 F.Supp. 642, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division, Docket Number CIV. 2405 (2/26/1958) Action by Negro attorney for mandatory injunction to require a city and its officers to remove the word Colored from doors of certain rest rooms in courthouse building occupied and used exclusively by state courts and judges, wherein defendants filed a motion to dismiss which was treated as a motion for summary judgment and plaintiff filed a... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Dawley V. City of Norfolk, Va. 159 F.Supp. 642, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division, Docket Number CIV. 2405 (2/26/1958) Action by Negro attorney for mandatory injunction to require a city and its officers to remove the word Colored from doors of certain rest rooms in courthouse building occupied and used exclusively by state courts and judges, wherein defendants filed a motion to dismiss which was treated as a motion for summary judgment and plaintiff filed a... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Dawley V. City of Norfolk, Va. 260 F.2d 647, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7687 (10/15/1958) Negro attorney's suit for declaratory judgment and permanent injunction restraining city and certain of its administrative officers from maintaining certain signs in State courthouse in city indicating segregation of races in public restrooms maintained in building for men and women. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Dawley V. City of Norfolk, Va. 260 F.2d 647, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7687 (10/15/1958) Negro attorney's suit for declaratory judgment and permanent injunction restraining city and certain of its administrative officers from maintaining certain signs in State courthouse in city indicating segregation of races in public restrooms maintained in building for men and women. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of... 1958 Cases Yes  
Herbert Brownell, Jr. Desegregation and the Law 71 Harvard Law Review 1587 (June, 1958) This volume recites, in layman's language, the legal history of the school-segregation cases. It analyzes prior decisions of the Supreme Court which foreshadowed the result reached in Brown v. Board of Educ., and it describes subsequent decisions of the federal courts up to the early part of 1957, which undertook to interpret and implement the... 1958 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Herbert Brownell, Jr. Desegregation and the Law 71 Harvard Law Review 1587 (June, 1958) This volume recites, in layman's language, the legal history of the school-segregation cases. It analyzes prior decisions of the Supreme Court which foreshadowed the result reached in Brown v. Board of Educ., and it describes subsequent decisions of the federal courts up to the early part of 1957, which undertook to interpret and implement the... 1958 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Dorsey V. State Athletic Commission 168 F.Supp. 149, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 5247 (11/28/1958) Suit by colored prizefighter in his own behalf and in behalf of all other colored professional prizefighters similarly situated for declaratory judgment and injunction to restrain Louisiana Athletic Commission from enforcing regulation and statute prohibiting athletic contest between colored persons and white persons. A statutory three-judge... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Dorsey V. State Athletic Commission 168 F.Supp. 149, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 5247 (11/28/1958) Suit by colored prizefighter in his own behalf and in behalf of all other colored professional prizefighters similarly situated for declaratory judgment and injunction to restrain Louisiana Athletic Commission from enforcing regulation and statute prohibiting athletic contest between colored persons and white persons. A statutory three-judge... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Eaton V. Board of Managers of James Walker Memorial Hospital 164 F.Supp. 191, United States District Court E.D. North Carolina, Wilmington Division, Docket Number CIV. 700 (6/24/1958) Suit by three Negro doctors for themselves and other Negro doctors as a class for purpose of obtaining admission to practice medicine at hospital on what is known as the Courtesy Staff. Defendants moved to dismiss for lack of federal jurisdiction. The District Court, Gilliam, J., held that where charter of hospital corporation was granted by... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Eaton V. Board of Managers of James Walker Memorial Hospital 164 F.Supp. 191, United States District Court E.D. North Carolina, Wilmington Division, Docket Number CIV. 700 (6/24/1958) Suit by three Negro doctors for themselves and other Negro doctors as a class for purpose of obtaining admission to practice medicine at hospital on what is known as the Courtesy Staff. Defendants moved to dismiss for lack of federal jurisdiction. The District Court, Gilliam, J., held that where charter of hospital corporation was granted by... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Eaton V. Board of Managers of James Walker Memorial Hospital 261 F.2d 521, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7731 (11/29/1958) Action by Negro physicians for a judgment declaring that they could not be excluded from courtesy staff privileges at a certain hospital solely on account of their race or color. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Don Gilliam, J., 164 F.Supp. 191, dismissing the complaint, the doctors... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Eaton V. Board of Managers of James Walker Memorial Hospital 261 F.2d 521, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7731 (11/29/1958) Action by Negro physicians for a judgment declaring that they could not be excluded from courtesy staff privileges at a certain hospital solely on account of their race or color. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Don Gilliam, J., 164 F.Supp. 191, dismissing the complaint, the doctors... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Eubanks V. State of La. 356 U.S. 584, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 550 (5/26/1958) Defendant was convicted in the Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, of murder, and he appealed. The Supreme Court of Louisiana, 232 La. 289, 94 So.2d 262, affirmed, and the defendant brought certiorari. The Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Black, held that where Negroes comprised about one-third of population of Parish of Orleans, Louisiana, and... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Eubanks V. State of La. 356 U.S. 584, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 550 (5/26/1958) Defendant was convicted in the Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, of murder, and he appealed. The Supreme Court of Louisiana, 232 La. 289, 94 So.2d 262, affirmed, and the defendant brought certiorari. The Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Black, held that where Negroes comprised about one-third of population of Parish of Orleans, Louisiana, and... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Evans V. Buchanan 256 F.2d 688, United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit, 12375, 12376, 12377, 12378, 12379, Docket Number (5/28/1958) Consolidated proceedings by various guardians ad litem on behalf if minor school children to compel their admission to schools within their respective districts on a recially nonsegregated basis. The United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Paul Leahy, J., 152 F.Supp. 886, granted summary judgment against Delaware State Board of... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Evans V. Buchanan 256 F.2d 688, United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit, Docket Number 12375, 12376, 12377, 12378, 12379, (5/28/1958) Consolidated proceedings by various guardians ad litem on behalf if minor school children to compel their admission to schools within their respective districts on a recially nonsegregated basis. The United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Paul Leahy, J., 152 F.Supp. 886, granted summary judgment against Delaware State Board of... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Evers V. Dwyer 358 U.S. 202, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 382 (12/15/1958) Class action for declaratory relief. The three-judge United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee dismissed the complaint, and the plaintiff appealed. The Supreme Court held that where Negro boarded bus and seated himself in the front and the driver told him to move to the rear and police officers ordered him to go to the... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Evers V. Dwyer 358 U.S. 202, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 382 (12/15/1958) Class action for declaratory relief. The three-judge United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee dismissed the complaint, and the plaintiff appealed. The Supreme Court held that where Negro boarded bus and seated himself in the front and the driver told him to move to the rear and police officers ordered him to go to the... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Faubus V. U.s. 254 F.2d 797, United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 15904 (4/28/1958) Proceeding to enjoin Governor, Adjutant General of State and Commander of National Guard Unit and others under the control or in privity with them from using National Guard to prevent eligible Negro school children from attending city high school pursuant to court approved plan of gradual integration. From and order of the United States District... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Faubus V. U.s. 254 F.2d 797, United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 15904 (4/28/1958) Proceeding to enjoin Governor, Adjutant General of State and Commander of National Guard Unit and others under the control or in privity with them from using National Guard to prevent eligible Negro school children from attending city high school pursuant to court approved plan of gradual integration. From and order of the United States District... 1958 Cases Yes  
Harry Lee Hudspeth Federal Jurisdiction in the Segregation Cases: the Three-judge Court and Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies 36 Texas Law Review 812 (June, 1958) In 1908, the United States Supreme Court in Ex parte Young held that a federal judge had the power to issue an interlocutory injunction restraining enforcement of a state statute claimed to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States. The decision aroused great resentment in Congress and throughout the country, largely because of the... 1958 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Harry Lee Hudspeth Federal Jurisdiction in the Segregation Cases: the Three-judge Court and Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies 36 Texas Law Review 812 (June, 1958) In 1908, the United States Supreme Court in Ex parte Young held that a federal judge had the power to issue an interlocutory injunction restraining enforcement of a state statute claimed to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States. The decision aroused great resentment in Congress and throughout the country, largely because of the... 1958 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Groves V. Board of Ed. Of St. Mary's County, Md. 164 F.Supp. 621, United States District Court, D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 10485 (8/19/1958) Action to secure admission of a Negro to the ninth grade of a high school, and to secure admission of his sister to the eleventh grade at such school. The District Court, Thomsen, Chief Judge, held that evidence failed to establish any legally sufficient justification for denying infant plaintiff her constitutional right to a desegregated education... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Groves V. Board of Ed. Of St. Mary's County, Md. 164 F.Supp. 621, United States District Court, D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 10485 (8/19/1958) Action to secure admission of a Negro to the ninth grade of a high school, and to secure admission of his sister to the eleventh grade at such school. The District Court, Thomsen, Chief Judge, held that evidence failed to establish any legally sufficient justification for denying infant plaintiff her constitutional right to a desegregated education... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Henry V. Godsell 165 F.Supp. 87, United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division, Docket Number 14769 (8/12/1958) Action by Negro minor, by her mother as next friend, for injunctive relief and damages on behalf of herself and others similarly situated against city school board and its members, pursuant to Civil Rights Act. The District Court, Levin, J., held that fact that school board, in good faith, constructed new school in area almost exclusively populated... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Henry V. Godsell 165 F.Supp. 87, United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division, Docket Number 14769 (8/12/1958) Action by Negro minor, by her mother as next friend, for injunctive relief and damages on behalf of herself and others similarly situated against city school board and its members, pursuant to Civil Rights Act. The District Court, Levin, J., held that fact that school board, in good faith, constructed new school in area almost exclusively populated... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Holland V. Board of Public Instruction of Palm Beach County, Fla. 258 F.2d 730, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 16897 (8/26/1958) Action by a child by his father as next friend complaining that he and other Negro children were segregated in public schools of the county solely on the basis of race. From an adverse judgment in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Emett C. Choate, J., the plaintiff appeals. The United States Court of Appeals,... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Holland V. Board of Public Instruction of Palm Beach County, Fla. 258 F.2d 730, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 16897 (8/26/1958) Action by a child by his father as next friend complaining that he and other Negro children were segregated in public schools of the county solely on the basis of race. From an adverse judgment in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Emett C. Choate, J., the plaintiff appeals. The United States Court of Appeals,... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Holt V. Raleigh City Bd. Of Ed. 164 F.Supp. 853, United States District Court E.D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division, Docket Number CIV. 1064 (8/29/1958) Action by Negro child and his parents to have declared rights of child to attend public school without discrimination on account of race or color and for injunction restraining alleged discrimination. The District Court, Stanley, J., held that under North Carolina statute to effect that parents dissatisfied with assignment of child to one public... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Holt V. Raleigh City Bd. Of Ed. 164 F.Supp. 853, United States District Court E.D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division, Docket Number CIV. 1064 (8/29/1958) Action by Negro child and his parents to have declared rights of child to attend public school without discrimination on account of race or color and for injunction restraining alleged discrimination. The District Court, Stanley, J., held that under North Carolina statute to effect that parents dissatisfied with assignment of child to one public... 1958 Cases Yes  
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