AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Chester V. State 84 Tex.Crim. 269, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 5181 (11/20/1918) Appeal from Galveston County Court, at Law; J.C. Canty, Judge. Peter Chester was convicted of being a passenger upon an interurban car provided with separate compartments in a compartment not designated for his race after having been forbidden to do so by the conductor, and he appeals. Reversed, and prosecution dismissed. 1918 Cases Yes  
  Constitutional Law-taking Property Without Due Process-invalidity of a Segregation Ordinance 27 Yale Law Journal 407 (January, 1918) A white man brought a bill for specific performance of a contract to sell land to a negro, the contract being expressly made subject to the latter's right under the law to occupy the premises as a residence. A Louisville ordinance, held valid by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, forbade the future occupancy by white man or negro of a residence in... 1918 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Race Segregation Ordinance Invalid 31 Harvard Law Review 475 (January, 1918) The opinion in Buchanan v. Warley reflects the confusion and difficulty of that troublesome problem, the place of the negro race in the United States, with which the case and the segregation ordinance of Louisville discussed therein are essentially concerned. The decision by a unanimous court reverses the holding of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,... 1918 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Trustees of Graded Free Colored Common Schools of City of Mayfield V. Trustees of Graded Free White Common Schools of City of Mayfield 180 Ky. 574, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (5/17/1918) Appeal from Circuit Court, Graves County. Action by the Trustees of Graded Free Colored Common Schools of the City of Mayfield, Ky., against the Trustees of the Graded Free White Common Schools of the City of Mayfield, Ky. From judgment of dismissal, plaintiff appeals. Reversed, with directions to overrule demurrers, and for proceedings consistent... 1918 Cases Yes  
  Unconstitutionality of Segregation Ordinances 27 Yale Law Journal 393 (January, 1918) The constitutional aspects of race conflict problems are again brought up by Buchanan v. Warley (1917) 38 Sup. Ct. 16. Overruling the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, the Federal Supreme Court held a Louisville segregation ordinance unconstitutional, as depriving citizens of property without due process of law. In effect, premises situated . in the... 1918 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  City of New Orleans V. Miller 142 La. 163, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 22625 (6/30/1917) Appeal from Recorder's Court of New Orleans; Louis Burthe, Jr., Recorder. Sweetie Miller and others appealed from a conviction under an ordinance of the city of New Orleans forbidding colored prostitutes to occupy any house, etc., outside of certain limits. Judgment reversed, and defendants ordered discharged. 1917 Cases Yes  
  Mammoth Cave R. Co. V. Com. 176 Ky. 747, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (9/27/1917) Appeal from Circuit Court, Barren County. The Mammoth Cave Railroad Company was convicted of violation of Ky. St. § 795, as to providing separate compartments for white and colored passengers, and it appeals. Affirmed. 1917 Cases Yes  
T. McD. Constitutional Law-due Process-police Power-discrimination Against Labor Union.-jackson et Al. V. Berger, 110 N. E. (Ohio) 732 25 Yale Law Journal 413 (March, 1916) Held, that a statute making it a criminal offense for an employer to discharge or threaten to discharge an employee because of affiliation with a labor organization is unconstitutional, being contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted primarily for the protection of the negro, when it was discovered, that, although... 1916 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Louisville & N.r. Co. V. Commonwealth 171 Ky. 355, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (10/5/1916) Appeal from Circuit Court, Kenton County. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company was convicted under two indictments of operating trains without separate accommodations for white and negro passengers, and it appeals. The appeals were heard together by agreement. Judgment in first case affirmed, and in second reversed, with directions to... 1916 Cases Yes  
  Melton V. State 78 Tex.Crim. 539, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 3895 (1/12/1916) Appeal from District Court, Freestone County; A. M. Blackmon, Judge. Anderson Melton was convicted, and appeals. Reversed and remanded. 1916 Cases Yes  
S. H. S. Constitutional Law-14th Amendment-police Powers-segregation Ordinance.-harris V. City of Louisville, 177 S. W. (Ky.) 472 25 Yale Law Journal 81 (November, 1915) Held, an ordinance which provided for the segregation of races in the city of Louisville, and which contained a clause providing that nothing therein should affect present vested rights, was a valid exercise of the police powers, and not contrary to the 14th amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The preservation of public health and... 1915 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Tex. V. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Colored 179 S.W. 265, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas, Docket Number 7380 (7/3/1915) Appeal from District Court, Dallas County; E. B. Muse, Judge. Action by the Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Texas against, the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Colored, and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. 1915 Cases Yes  
  Statutory Discriminations Against Negroes with Reference to Pullman Cars 28 Harvard Law Review 417 (February, 1915) A new phase of the Jim Crow question has been presented by statutes which allow railroads to provide sleeping cars, chair cars, and dining cars for white passengers without supplying like cars for negroes. In a recent case the United States Supreme Court intimated that such a statute is unconstitutional, even though it be shown that there is not a... 1915 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Com. V. George 42 Pa.C.C. 587, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Pennsylvania, Dauphin County (1/1/1914) The defendant was duly convicted for a violation of the act of May 19, 1887, P. L. 130, entitled An act to provide civil rights for all people, regardless of race or color. The first and only section of the act is as follows: That any person, company or corporation, being owner, lessee or manager of any restaurant, hotel,... 1914 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Constitutional Law - Personal Rights - Constitutionality of Negro Segregation in Separate Residence Districts under the Fourteenth Amendment 27 Harvard Law Review 279 (January, 1914) An ordinance of the city of Baltimore provided that no white persons or negroes should thereafter reside in blocks then occupied for residences exclusively by the other race. Held, that the ordinance does not conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. State v. Gurry, 88 Atl. 546. For a discussion of the... 1914 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Louisville & N.r. Co. V. Commonwealth 160 Ky. 769, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (11/10/1914) Appeal from Circuit Court, Christian County. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company was convicted of discrimination, in violation of the Separate Coach Law, and appeals. Reversed and remanded. 1914 Cases Yes  
  The Eight of Inheritance of Feeedmen Born of Slave Parents 24 Yale Law Journal 75 (November, 1914) It has been recently decided by the United States Supreme Court that the surviving brothers and sisters of a colored freed-man dying intestate, who were the children of a born slave and were themselves born slaves, are not denied the equal protection of the laws, contrary to the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, by a... 1914 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  The Segregation of the Negro in Separate Residence Districts 27 Harvard Law Review 270 (January, 1914) Any attempt to segregate the members of one race from those of another must necessarily carry with it a considerable restraint upon personal liberty. Such a deprivation of liberty is not unconstitutional if fairly within the exercise of the police power. The very conception of police regulations involves a limiting of personal liberty. Accordingly... 1914 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Trustees of Normal School of Elizabeth City V. State Board of Educ. 166 N.C. 462, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 28 (9/16/1914) Appeal from Superior Court, Pasquotank County; Ferguson, Judge. Suit by the Trustees of the Normal School of Elizabeth City against the State Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the Colored State Normal School of Elizabeth City, N. C., to set aside a deed of certain school land for fraud. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal.... 1914 Cases Yes  
Charles Wallace Collins, Washington, D. C. Will the California Alien Land Law Stand the Test of the Fourteenth Amendment? 23 Yale Law Journal 330 (February, 1914) The Fourteenth Amendment has had the most intricate and the most interesting history of any part of our Constitution. Adopted through the pressure caused by a concrete social and political situationthe chaotic condition of the South at the close of the Civil Warwe can see now that it was little more than a war measure for the relief of the negro... 1914 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Briggs V. Mclaughlin 134 La. 133, Supreme Court of Louisiana, 19, Docket Number587 (12/15/1913) Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; W. F. Blackman, Judge. Action by Bob Briggs against Washington McLaughlin, administrator, and M. Rax intervenes. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant and intervener appeal. Affirmed. Illegitimate children are those born out of wedlock; and, unless they have been... 1913 Cases Yes  
  Interstate Commerce - Control by States - Constitutionality of State Statute Compelling Race Segregation on All Trains 26 Harvard Law Review 456 (March, 1913) A state statute required all railroads carrying passengers in the state to provide equal but separate accommodation for the white and colored races. Held, that the statute is constitutional. Alabama & Vicksburg Ry. Co. y. Morris, 60 So. 11 (Miss.). In absence of federal legislation, the state's power to regulate matters not requiring national... 1913 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Jury - Venire: Motion to Quash - Discrimination Against Negroes - Constitutional Law 27 Harvard Law Review 184 (December, 1913) Jury commissioners in making up a general venire of three hundred citizens for jury service in a county in Louisiana selected only white men, although about one quarter of the community was negro. The defendant, a negro, moved to quash the general venire. Held, that the motion was correctly overruled. State v. Turner, 63 So. 169 (La.). This method... 1913 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Public-service Companies - What Callings Are Public - Cemeteries 26 Harvard Law Review 761 (June, 1913) The respondent corporation maintained a cemetery, for several years serving the general public, both whites and negroes, without discrimination. Thereafter a rule was made that no further lots should be sold to negroes. A negro petitioned for a writ of mandamus to compel the cemetery company to accept the body of his negro wife for burial. Held,... 1913 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  State ex Rel. Mason V. Springfield African Social & Improvement Club 169 Mo.App. 137, Springfield Court of Appeals, Missouri (3/3/1913) Quo warranto by the State of Missouri on relation of J. H. Mason, Prosecuting Attorney for Greene County, against the Springfield African Social & Improvement Club. Writ of ouster awarded. 1913 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Constitutional Law-equal Protection of Laws-discrimination Between Races.-people V. Robinson, 132 N. Y. Supp., 674 21 Yale Law Journal 683 (June, 1912) Held, in proceedings before a magistrate for disorderly conduct consisting in sending to a woman letters declaring love and insisting and proposing marriage, the reception over defendant's objection of evidence that he is of the negro race, and the taking of that fact into consideration by the magistrate, do not violate any constitutional right of... 1912 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Mathieu V. Mathieu 9 Teiss. 172, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, Docket Number 5506 (3/4/1912) 1. During slavery the presumption of servitude attached to negroes alone and not to persons of color. 2. The vendee of a married woman possesses the same right as she herself had of showing that real estate purchased by her during the community in fact belonged to her separate paraphernal estate. Appeal from the 28th Judicial District Court, for... 1912 Cases Yes  
Julien C. Monnet, The State University of Oklahoma The Latest Phase of Negro Disfranchisement 26 Harvard Law Review 42 (November, 1912) BEGINNING with Mississippi in 1890, most of the southern states have passed statutes or adopted constitutional provisions, so drafted within limits which are hoped to be permissible under the United States Constitution, as, upon their face, to exclude from the right of suffrage as large a number of the negro race as possible without excluding the... 1912 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Brann V. Bell 192 F. 427, Circuit Court, E.D. Oklahoma (2/20/1911) In Equity. Suit by James Brann against L. A. Bell and others to remove cloud from title, and cross-bill by defendants to recover the land in question. On preliminary hearing to settle law of descent applicable. 1911 Cases Yes  
  Carriers of Passengers-insult of Passenger by Conductor-assignment of White and Colored Races to Separate Coaches.-may V. Shreveport Traction Co., 53 So., 671 (La.) 20 Yale Law Journal 587 (May, 1911) Held, that to apply the term negro to a white person is humiliating and insulting, and a suggestive question, such as, Don't you belong over there? addressed to a white person by the conductor of a street car, who points to the seats reserved for negroes is but little less so. In either case, and whether the language used be heard by others or... 1911 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
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