AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  1. Maintaining Racial Segregation Through State Criminal Trespass Prosecutions 77 Harvard Law Review 127 (November, 1963) The ten Negro petitioners in Peterson v. City of Greenville had been convicted under a South Carolina criminal trespass statute for refusing to leave an S. H. Kress lunch counter at the request of the manager. At trial the manager testified that he had acted solely because of the petitioners' race and in response to local customs and a city... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Ephraim Margolin American Race Relations Today: Studies of the Problems Beyond Desegregation 72 Yale Law Journal 1088 (April, 1963) Most sociologists, like cubist painters, represent life in a manner accessible only to their own kind. They crossbreed themselves into intellectual malnutrition and loneliness. The potential reader retreats in the face of semantic barbed-wire and terminological mazes unaware of the insights and unexposed to enlightenment. The ignorant fringe reacts... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Anderson V. City of Albany 321 F.2d 649, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20501 (7/26/1963) Class action to enjoin enforcement of segregation practices. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, J. Robert Elliott, J., dismissed the complaint, and the plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, Tuttle, Chief Judge, held that the plaintiffs were entitled to an injunction. Reversed and remanded with directions.... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Anderson V. Kelly 32 F.R.D. 355, United States District Court M. D. Georgia, Albany Division, Docket Number CIV. 730 (2/14/1963) Class action, brought on behalf of plaintiffs themselves and on behalf of all other Negro citizens of Albany, Georgia, similarly situated, for violation of their civil rights. The District Court, Elliott, J., held that plaintiffs lacked standing to seek injunctive relief for others who might have been injured, in view of lack of evidence that any... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Application of Vetere 41 Misc.2d 200, Supreme Court, Albany County, New York, Special Term (12/31/1963) Proceedings on applications under Article 78, CPLR § 7801 et seq., to review determinations and orders of the State Commissioner of Education. The Supreme Court, Special Term, Isadore Bookstein, J., held that the statute providing that no person shall be refused admission into or be excluded from public school on account of race precluded State... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Bailey V. Patterson 323 F.2d 201, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20372 (9/24/1963) Proceeding by Negroes to enjoin enforcement of state and municipal segregation laws affecting common carriers, to enjoin maintenance of racial segregation, and to enjoin municipal authorities from continuing to arrest or coerce plaintiffs in exercise of their federally protected rights. The United States District Court for the Southern District of... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Barthe V. City of New Orleans, La. 219 F.Supp. 788, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 12968 (7/31/1963) Negro residents of New Orleans brought action against City of New Orleans and others for desegregation of city parks and other recreational facilities. The District Court, sitting as a three-judge court, held that the City of New Orleans was required forthwith to desegregate its parks, playgrounds, community centers, and all recreational and... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Beatrice Foods Co. V. U.s. 312 F.2d 29, United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 16899 (1/2/1963) Defendant was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, Richard E. Robinson, J., of having engaged in combination and conspiracy to eliminate and suppress competition in sale of milk and cream to United States Veterans Administration Hospital and Air Force Base and it appealed. The Court of Appeals, Blackmun,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Becton V. Greene County Bd. Of Ed. Of Greene County, N. C. 32 F.R.D. 220, United States District Court E. D. North Carolina, Washington Division, Docket Number CIV. 458 (1/18/1963) Action on behalf of five Negro students, attending an all Negro student school, to be allowed to transfer to other schools in county. On motion of two other Negroes to intervene the District Court, Larkins, J., held that where none of the original plaintiffs was any longer eligible for enrollment in any school in county case had become moot, and... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Bell V. School Bd. Of Powhatan County, Va. 321 F.2d 494, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8944 (6/29/1963) Action for injunctive relief against school segregation. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond, John D. Butzner, Jr., J., admitted three pupils, enjoined discrimination, and required submission of desegregation plan, but denied relief to remaining plaintiffs and denied counsel fees, and susponded the... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Bell V. School City of Gary, Ind. 213 F.Supp. 819, United States District Court, N.D. Indiana, Hammond Division, Docket Number CIV. 3346 (1/29/1963) Declaratory judgment action brought by minor Negro children enrolled in public schools charging that city maintained a segregated school system in violation of plaintiffs' constitutional rights. The District Court, Beamer, J., held that the plaintiffs had failed to establish that the Board of Education had deliberately or purposely segregated city... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Bell V. School City of Gary, Ind. 324 F.2d 209, United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit, Docket Number 14152 (10/31/1963) Declaratory judgment action brought by minor Negro children charging that city maintained a segregated school system in violation of plaintiffs' constitutional rights. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, George N. Beamer, J., 213 F.Supp. 819, dismissed the complaint and the plaintiff appealed. The Court of... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Bennett V. National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People 236 Ark. 750, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 5-2575 (6/3/1963) Complaint by association and certain of its officers that equal protection and due process were denied to them and others by certain statutes. The Chancery Court, First Division, Pulaski County, Murray O. Reed, Chancellor, held these statutes unconstitutional except one which empowered the Attorney General of Arkansas to obtain access to the files,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Blackwell V. Harrison 221 F.Supp. 651, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, at Alexandria, Docket Number CIV 2873 (6/27/1963) Action by Negroes for a declaration of invalidity of a Virginia statute requiring racial segregation in places of public assemblage, and for injunctive relief against refusal of operators of certain motion picture theatres to admit Negroes. A three-judge District Court held that segregation in places of public assemblage as ordered by Virginia... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Board of School Com'rs of Mobile County V. Davis 84 S.Ct. 10, Supreme Court of the United States (8/16/1963) Proceeding on an application by a board of school commissioners for stay of execution and enforcement of a judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which directed the board to refrain from requiring or permitting segregation and to submit a plan to make immediate start on desegregation not later than beginning of the... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Bradley V. School Bd. Of City of Richmond, Va. 317 F.2d 429, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8757 (5/10/1963) Action by Negro pupils, their parents and guardians to require transfer of pupils from Negro public schools to white public schools and, on behalf of all persons similarly situated, for injunction restraining defendants from operating racially segregated schools. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Brief for Petitioner, Marlon D. Green, Green V. Continental Air Lines, Inc. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 492 (1/19/1963) Abraham Lincoln, as President of the United States of America, in his Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, gave freedom to the Negro slaves, recommended to them that, in all cases... 1963 Briefs Yes  
  Brief for the Respondent, Colorado Anti-discrimination Com'n V. Continental Air Lines, Inc. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 146 (2/13/1963) The opinion of the Supreme Court of Colorado (R. 288-309) is reported at 368 P.2d 970. The opinion has not yet been reported in the official state reports. The judgment of the Supreme Court... 1963 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of Anti-defamation League of B'nai B'rith and American Jewish Committee as Amici Curiae, Colorado Anti-discrimination Com'n V. Continental Air Lines, Inc. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 146, 492 (1/14/1963) B'nai B'rith, founded in 1843, is the oldest civic organization of American Jews. It represents a membership of more than three hundred and fifty thousand men and women and their families.... 1963 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of Petitioners, Colorado Anti-discrimination Com'n V. Continental Air Lines, Inc. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 146 (1/21/1963) The opinion sought to be reviewed is reported as The Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission, et al. v. Continental Air Lines, Inc., (1962) . Colo., 368 P. (2d) 970. This opinion is not as... 1963 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of the Attorney General of the State of New York, Joined by the Attorneys General of the States of Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington , an Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 146 (1/18/1963) The State of New York, in 1945, established the first administrative agency in the nation seeking to eliminate and prevent discrimination in employment based on race, creed, color or... 1963 Briefs Yes  
  Briggs V. State 236 Ark. 596, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 4992, 4994, 4997 (5/13/1963) Sit-in cases. The defendants were tried in the Circuit Court, Pulaski County, William J. Kirby, J., and appealed. The Supreme Court, Johnson, J., held, with respect to convictions under Act 226, that evidence that Negro defendants seated themselves at a store lunch counter, that they refused to obey police orders to leave the premises... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains and overruling risk.
  Brooks V. County School Bd. Of Arlington County, Va. 324 F.2d 303, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8708 (10/31/1963) Proceeding on a motion of county school board to dissolve an injunction against racial discrimination. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria, Oren R. Lewis, J., 204 F.Supp. 620, dissolved the injunction and plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, Sobeloff, Chief Judge, held that the injunction... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Brown V. City of Richmond 204 Va. 471, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (9/11/1963) Segregation cases. The plaintiffs appealed from decrees entered by the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, Part II, M. Ray Doubles, J. The Supreme Court of Appeals, Buchanan, J., held that certain segregation statutes are unconstitutional. Reversed and remanded. 1963 Cases Yes  
  Brown V. School Dist. No. 29, Charleston, S.c. 226 F.Supp. 819, United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Charleston Division, Docket Number CIV. 7747 (8/22/1963) Action by Negro children and their parents to enjoin operation of school system on racially segregated basis. The District Court, Martin, J., held that Negro children were not required to comply with state administrative procedures prior to instituting suit in federal court for injunction. Injunction granted. 1963 Cases Yes  
  Brown V. South Carolina State Forestry Commission 226 F.Supp. 646, United States District Court E.D. South Carolina, Columbia Division, Docket Number CIV. AC-774 (7/10/1963) Action to have defendants enjoined from prohibiting plaintiffs and other Negroes similarly situated from making use of public parks and beaches operated by the State, and for certain declaratory relief. The District Court, Martin, J., held that Negroes were entitled to use of state parks in the same manner and to the same extent as white persons,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Bush V. Orleans Parish School Bd. 230 F.Supp. 509, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Docket Number CIV 3630 (5/18/1963) Class action wherein defendant parish school board sought court approval of its long-range plan for operation of parish schools on a non-discriminatory basis. The District Court, Frank B. Ellis. J., held that elimination of dualzone systems made less critical the need for stop-gap measures such as lateral transfers, and the court would not require... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Bynum V. Schiro 219 F.Supp. 204, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 12439 (7/1/1963) Class action by New Orleans Negroes for injunctive relief against city's segregation at public functions held in the city auditorium, and against city's discrimination against the NAACP and similar organizations by denying use of the auditorium to organizations advocating desegregation. A three-judge District Court, Wisdom, Circuit Judge, held that... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Calhoun V. Latimer 321 F.2d 302, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20273 (6/17/1963) School desegregation case. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Frank A. Hooper, Chief Judge, denied, 217 F.Supp. 614, a motion for further relief, and an appeal was taken. The Court of Appeals, Griffin B. Bell, Circuit Judge, held that the Atlanta plan of desegregating school system from top down, as conceived and... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
Max Gluckman Civil War and Theories of Power in Barotse-land: African and Medieval Analogies 72 Yale Law Journal 1515 (July, 1963) The Lozi are the dominant tribe of Barotseland, and their king rules over not only his own tribal people, but also members of twenty-five other tribal groups. The Barotse Kingdom thus includes a total of 250,000 to 300,000 people who inhabit some 80,000 square miles in Northwestern Rhodesia. The Lozi themselves live in the floodplain of the Upper... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
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