AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Com. V. Illinois Cent. R. Co. 141 Ky. 502, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (1/11/1911) Appeal from Circuit Court, McCracken County. The Illinois Central Railroad was indicted for neglecting to provide separate cars and compartments on cars operated by it for transportation of white and colored passengers. There was a judgment of dismissal, and the Commonwealth appeals. Affirmed. 1911 Cases Yes  
  State V. Jones 127 La. 694, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 18,518 (1/3/1911) Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Grant; W. F. Blackman, Judge. Mary Jane Jones was convicted of arson, and she appeals. Reversed and remanded. 1911 Cases Yes  
  The Grandfather Clause and the Fifteenth Amendment 24 Harvard Law Review 388 (March, 1911) The constitutions or statutes of several Southern states require an educational or property qualification for suffrage, but except from that requirement descendants of persons who were entitled to vote in any of the United States prior to some date before the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. The words on account of in that amendment might... 1911 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  The Negro Defined 20 Yale Law Journal 224 (January, 1911) In many of the states where a considerable portion of the population is colored, statutes define the term negro and establish his status where the same is considered, because of local conditions, as essentially different from that of Caucasians. Where legislatures have either negligently or intentionally left the terms negro and colored... 1911 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Blackburn V. Louisiana Ry. & Nav. Co. 128 La. 319, Supreme Court of Louisiana, 18, Docket Number089 (11/28/1910) Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; H. F. Brunot, Judge. Action by Delia A. Blackburn against the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Modified and affirmed. Deceased was killed, while attempting to couple certain cars, by his head being crushed between a... 1910 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Chiles V. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. 218 U.S. 71, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 158 (5/31/1910) IN ERROR to the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky to review a judgment which affirmed a judgment of the Circuit Court of Fayette County, in that state, in favor of the carrier in an action by an interstate negro passenger for damages for his eviction from a car set apart exclusively for white persons. Affirmed. See same case below, 125 Ky.... 1910 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
L. J. P. Race Distinctions in American Law 24 Harvard Law Review 165 (December, 1910) This book expressly disclaims the status of a legal treatise, and the publishers have spared no pains to give it an unlegal aspect. Yet it is not for the general reader. It is in truth a statistical compendium of all post bellum statutes and common-law doctrines in which race distinctions are enunciated; and of these all but a very few deal with... 1910 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Statutes - Interpretation - "Person of the Negro or Black Race." 24 Harvard Law Review 68 (November, 1910) A statute made concubinage between a person of the Caucasian or white race and a person of the negro or black race a felony. Held, that an octoroon (or person having one-eighth negro blood) is not a person of the negro or black race within the meaning of the statute. State v. Treadaway, 52 So. 500 (La.). Most of the statutory definitions of the... 1910 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
J. Newton Baker, District of Columbia Bar The Segregation of White and Colored Passengers on Interstate Trains 19 Yale Law Journal 445 (April, 1910) In the transportation of passengers common carriers are at liberty to establish rules and regulations for the accommodation of white and colored passengers. In some States where the colored population is large, public sentiment demands and requires a separation of the races, to prevent the breach of the peace. In order to obtain this security,... 1910 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Black V. Nolan 132 Ga. 452, Supreme Court of Georgia (4/16/1909) Error from Superior Court, Morgan County; H. J. Lewis, Judge. Action for partition by Mary L. Black, in her own right and as guardian for her children, against J. A. Nolan and others. From a judgment in their favor, plaintiffs bring error. Affirmed. 1909 Cases Yes  
  Civil Rights-drawing of Jury-exclusion of Disreputable Negroes.- State V. Lawrence, 50 So. 406 (La.) 19 Yale Law Journal 129 (December, 1909) Held, that the fact that the jury commissioners select persons for service on juries with the aid of a city directory, from which are excluded only the names of disreputable negroes, affords a defendant in a criminal prosecution, even if colored, no legal ground of complaint. It has been repeatedly held that whenever by state action all persons of... 1909 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Constitutional Law - Personal Rights: Civil, Political, and Religious - Statute Compelling Color Line in Private Schools 22 Harvard Law Review 227 (January, 1909) A statute made it unlawful for any person, corporation, or association of persons, to maintain a school where persons of the white and negro races were taught. A domestic corporation was convicted under the statute. Held, that the defendant corporation has been deprived of no right guaranteed by the federal Constitution. Berea College v. The... 1909 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Constitutionality of a Statute Compelling the Color Line in Private Schools 22 Harvard Law Review 217 (January, 1909) Mr. Justice Harlan, dissenting with one other justice from a recent decision of the Supreme Court, declares that a state law which forbids the joint education of white and colored persons in private schools violates the federal Constitution. Berea College v. Commonwealth, Nov. 9, 1908. The point is unsatisfactorily evaded by the majority, who hold... 1909 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  State V. Brady 124 La. 951, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 17,782 (11/15/1909) Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; W. F. Blackman, Judge. Henry Brady was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Affirmed. 1909 Cases Yes  
  Berea College V. Commonwealth of Kentucky 211 U.S. 45, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 12 (11/9/1908) IN ERROR to the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky to review a judgment which affirmed a conviction of a corporation in the Circuit Court of Madison County, in that state, of the offense of teaching white and negro pupils in the same institution. Affirmed. See same case below, 123 Ky. 209, 94 S. W. 623. 1908 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Ligon V. Johnston 164 F. 670, Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 2685 (9/30/1908) Bettie Ligon, on behalf of herself and several hundred others alleged to be similarly situated and to be of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian descent and members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, brought suit in the United States Court for the Southern District of the Indian Territory against James R. Garfield as Secretary of the Interior, and... 1908 Cases Yes  
  Louisville Ry. Co. V. Com. 130 Ky. 738, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (12/2/1908) Appeals from Circuit Court, Jefferson County, Criminal Division. To be officially reported. The Louisville Railway Company and the Louisville & Interurban Railroad Company were each convicted of running their cars in violation of the statute relating to separate compartments for white and colored passengers, and each appealed; the... 1908 Cases Yes  
  Lyons V. Akron Skating Rink Co. 32 Ohio C.D. 690, Circuit Court of Ohio (4/17/1908) The parties to this proceeding in error stand related as they stood below. The original action was for damages under the civil rights act, Sec. 4426-1 R. S. (Sec. 12940 G. C.), for alleged exclusion of the plaintiff in error from the defendant in error's rink, on the ground of his race and color. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The... 1908 Cases Yes  
  Constitutional Law-conspiracy.-hodges V. United States, 203 U. S. 1 16 Yale Law Journal 203 (January, 1907) Held, that the Federal courts have no jurisdiction under Thirteenth Amendment as sections 1978, 1979, 5508, 5510, Revised Statutes, of a charge of conspiracy made and carried out in a state to prevent citizens of African descent, because of their race and color, from making or carrying out contracts and agreements to labor. See Comment. 1907 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Constitutional Law-discrimination-public Conveyances.-morrison V. State, 95 S. W. (Tenn.) 494 16 Yale Law Journal 204 (January, 1907) Held, that a state statute which requires the separation of white and colored persons on street cars is a proper police regulation and not violative of constitutional provisions as abridging the privileges of citizens, or depriving them of equal protection of the law. Equal accommodations are not denied when separate, but equally good cars are... 1907 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  The Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts in Cases of Conspiracy Against Persons of African Descent 16 Yale Law Journal 200 (January, 1907) On October 24, 1906, the Supreme Court of the United States, filed an opinion in the case of Hodges v. United States, 203 U. S. 1, which can hardly fail to be of universal interest especially in the southern sections of the couatry. In that case the court, in an opinion remarkable for its brevity, held, Harlan and Day, JJ., dissenting, that the... 1907 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  The Sally 42 Ct.Cl. 75, United States Court of Claims (1/7/1907) The Sally sails from Newport on the 7th of June, 1796, bound for Africa. A cargo of slaves is purchased and shipped. On the return voyage from Africa to the neutral island of St. Thomas and thence to Georgia she is captured and subsequently condemned. The question in the case is whether the United States had a valid diplomatic claim against France. 1907 Cases Yes  
  Berea College V. Commonwealth 29 Ky.L.Rptr. 284, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (6/12/1906) Appeal from Circuit Court, Madison County. To be officially reported. Berea College was convicted on indictments for maintaining an institution of learning where persons of the white and negro races were both received, and appeals. Affirmed as to one indictment, and reversed and remanded as to the other. 1906 Cases Yes  
  Black V. Brittain 116 Mo.App. 386, St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri (1/30/1906) Appeal from Circuit Court, Greene County; Jas. T. Neville, Judge. Petition by J. A. Black against J. W. Brittain, as administrator of the estate of R. A. Black, deceased, for an allowance to a husband. From a judgment denying the application, petitioner appeals. Affirmed. 1906 Cases Yes  
  Hodges V. U.s. 203 U.S. 1, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 14 (5/28/1906) IN ERROR to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas to review a judgment convicting individual citizens of compelling negro citizens, by force and intimidation, to desist from performing their contracts of employment. Reversed and remanded with instructions to sustain a demurrer to the indictment. 1906 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Morrison V. State 8 Cates 534, Supreme Court of Tennessee (8/1/1906) Appeal from Criminal Court, Shelby County; John T. Moss, Judge. Mary Morrison was prosecuted for a violation of Act April 4, 1905 (Acts 105, p. 321, c. 150), providing for the separation of white and colored passengers, and she appeals from a judgment denying a motion to quash the indictment. Affirmed. 1906 Cases Yes  
  Police Power - Extent - Statute Separating Whites and Negroes in Private Institutions of Learning 20 Harvard Law Review 74 (November, 1906) A Kentucky statute made it an offense to conduct any institution of learning in which both white and colored persons were received as pupils unless it was conducted in separate branches. Held, that the statute is valid as a reasonable exercise of the police power in so far as it prevents the attendance of members of the two races at the same time... 1906 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Police Power - Public Service Agencies - Public Places of Amusement 19 Harvard Law Review 472 (April, 1906) A statute made it unlawful to exclude from a public place of amusement any one who demands admission with a ticket acquired by purchase. The plaintiff was excluded from the defendant's race track, although he had complied with all the requirements of the statute. The defendant contended that the statute was unconstitutional. Held, that it is... 1906 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Police Power; Schools for White and Colored Persons 16 Yale Law Journal 45 (November, 1906) Following the Civil war it was generally thought that the solving. of the negro question lay in the association of the colored people with the whites. A decade, however, has wrought a change in this view; public opinion, especially in the southern states, has discarded the association idea and the separation of the races is now considered the... 1906 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Chesapeake & O.r. Co. V. Com. 27 Ky.L.Rptr. 176, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (1/24/1905) Appeals from Circuit Court, Shelby County. To be officially reported. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company was convicted of failure to furnish separate coaches for white and colored persons, and it appeals. Reversed. 1905 Cases Yes  
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