AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Brown V. Board of Ed. Of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. 347 U.S. 483, Supreme Court of the United States, 1, 2, 4, Docket Number 10 (5/17/1954) Class actions originating in the four states of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, by which minor Negro plaintiffs sought to obtain admission to public schools on a nonsegregated basis. On direct appeals by plaintiffs from adverse decisions in the United States District Courts, District of Kansas, 98 F.Supp. 797, Eastern District of... 1954 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Constantine V. Southwestern Louisiana Institute 120 F.Supp. 417, United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Opelousas Division, Docket Number 4401 (4/22/1954) Suit by Negro youths, for themselves and for all others similarly situated and qualified, seeking declaratory judgment and injunctive relief precluding defendants from excluding them from admission to state supported institution of higher learning as students upon the ground of their membership in the Negro race. The District Court, Hunter, J.,... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Davis V. Brotherhood Ry. Carmen of America, Local 783 272 S.W.2d 147, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston, Docket Number 12716 (10/21/1954) Suit by Negro employees to enjoin labor organization from denying them membership in lodge reserved for white members. The District Court, Harris County, Ewing Boyd, J., rendered judgment for defendant and plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Civil Appeals, Hamblen, C. J., held that evidence sustained findings that union, which maintained separate... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Fletcher V. Coney Island 121 N.E.2d 574, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Hamilton, Docket Number A-139328 (7/21/1954) Suit to enjoin defendant corporation from denying plaintiff admission to its amusement park, because of her race, color, or any other reason not applicable alike to all citizens, in... 1954 Trial Court Orders Yes  
  Hainsworth V. Harris County Com'rs Court 265 S.W.2d 217, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston, Docket Number 12663 (2/18/1954) Mandamus action to compel County Commissioners' Court to remove segregation sign from table in County Law Library, and to stop alleged arbitrary practice of discrimination in use of tables in County Courthouse Law Library. The District Court, Harris County, Dan W. Jackson, J., entered judgment denying the writ, and plaintiff appealed. The Court of... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Harvey V. Morgan 272 S.W.2d 621, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin, Docket Number 10248 (10/27/1954) Proceeding brought by Negro boxer against Commissioner of Labor Statistics for mandatory order requiring Commissioner to grant permission to plaintiff to engage in fights with members of white race and enjoining defendant from enforcing Penal Code section proscribing such fights. The 126 District Court, Travis County, Jack Roberts, J., entered... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Hernandez V. State of Tex. 347 U.S. 475, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 406 (5/3/1954) Prosecution for murder wherein defendant moved to quash indictment and petit jury panel on ground that persons of Mexican descent were systematically excluded from service of jury commissioners, grand jurors, and petit jurors, although they were qualified to serve. The District Court, Jackson County, overruled motions and defendant appealed. The... 1954 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Holmes V. City of Atlanta 124 F.Supp. 290, United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division, Docket Number CIV. 4621 (7/8/1954) Negro citizens of city, for themselves, and for other Negroes similarly situated, brought action against city and city officials for declaratory judgment and to enjoin city and city officials from denying Negro citizens golfing privileges at city golf courses. The District Court, Sloan, J., held that where city owned and operated seven golf courses... 1954 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Illinois Cent. R. Co. V. Illinois Commerce Commission 2 Ill.2d 382, Supreme Court of Illinois, Docket Number 161229, 32949 (3/17/1954) Proceeding before Illinois Commerce Commission for determination that railroad racial segregation and for order directing racial segreation and for order directing railroad to cease and desist. The Superior Court, Cook County, James J. McDermott, J., affirmed an order granting relief sought, and railroad corporation appealed. The Supreme Court,... 1954 Cases Yes  
  In re Mckee's Estate 378 Pa. 607, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Docket Number 227, 225, 226, 228 (9/27/1954) Proceeding on account of trustee of testamentary trust. Testator's descendants interposed claims. The Orphans' Court of Philadelphia County, at No. 654 of 1902, Robert O. Bolger, J., affirmed the account and held that where testamentary trust directed the institution of an interracial naval college for the education of white and negro orphan boys,... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Jackson V. State 37 Ala.App. 519, Court of Appeals of Alabama, Docket Number 8 DIV. 382 (2/16/1954) Defendant was convicted of miscegenation. The Circuit Court, Lauderdale County, Harold V. Hughston, J., rendered judgment, and defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals, Carr, P. J., held that Code 1940, Tit. 14, § 360, making it an offense for any white person and any Negro to intermarry or live together in adultery or fornication and prescribing... 1954 Cases Yes  
  John R. Thompson Co. V. District of Columbia 214 F.2d 210, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, Docket Number 11039, 11044 (2/15/1954) Prosecution on information in four counts charging refusal to serve members of negro race in restaurant in District of Columbia in violation of 1872 and 1873 Acts of Legislative Assembly of... 1954 Trial Court Orders Yes  
  John R. Thompson Co. V. District of Columbia 214 F.2d 210, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 11039, Docket Number 11044 (2/15/1954) Prosecution on information in four counts charging refusal to serve members of negro race in restaurant in District of Columbia in violation of 1872 and 1873 Acts of Legislative Assembly of the District. The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, Criminal Division, quashed the information, and the District of Columbia appealed. The Municipal... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Jones V. City of Hamtramck 121 F.Supp. 123, United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 12307 (1/7/1954) Class action for judgment determining that municipal housing commission's exclusion of Negroes from housing project was in violation of law, and for injunction against such discriminatory practice. Plaintiffs moved for summary judgment. The District Court Thornton, J., held that members of Negro race, who had been refused admission by municipal... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Lonesome V. Maxwell 123 F.Supp. 193, United States District Court, D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 6879, CIV. 5847, CIV. 5965 (7/27/1954) Suits were brought to enjoin segregation of the Negro and white races at public bathing beaches, bathhouses, and swimming pools. Plaintiffs made motions for judgment on the pleadings. The District Court, Thomsen, J., held that the segregation of Negroes and whites by the state of Maryland and the City of Baltimore at public bathing beaches,... 1954 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Mcdonald V. Key 125 F.Supp. 775, United States District Court W.D. Oklahoma, Docket Number CIV. 6366 (10/18/1954) Candidate, after whose name the word Negro in parenthesis was placed on Oklahoma primary ballot, as required by state statute, brought action against individual members of the Oklahoma State Election Board to recover actual and exemplary damages, on ground that the placing of the word Negro in parenthesis after his name deprived him of equal... 1954 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Oliver V. Central of Ga. Ry. Co. 210 Ga. 597, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 18542 (5/11/1954) Action by railway against certain individuals, personally and as representatives of colored firemen, and against representatives of white firemen and union representatives to enjoin one pending and another threatened actions growing out of interpretation of Federal District Court decree pertaining to discrimination against Negro firemen, especially... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Pellicer V. Brotherhood of Ry. And S. S. Clerks 217 F.2d 205, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 14859 (12/9/1954) Action by railway agency employee who sought to have amendment to bargaining agreement modifying seniority rights by intergration of colored employees on security list with other employees enjoined as unlawful on ground that it was enacted for sole benefit of colored employees. From adverse judgment of the United States District Court for the... 1954 Cases Yes  
John P. Roche Plessy V. Ferguson: Requiescat in Pace? 103 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 44 (October, 1954) When, in 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that Negroes and whites could be coercively allocated to separate facilities provided they were substantially equal, it did little more than give its imprimatur to the dominant mores of the American community. That white supremacy was the loudly announced slogan of the South needs little adumbration, but it... 1954 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Rogers V. State 37 Ala.App. 638, Court of Appeals of Alabama, Docket Number 8 DIV. 425 (6/15/1954) Defendant was convicted of miscegenation. The Circuit Court, Lauderdale County, Robt. M. Hill, J., rendered judgment, and defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals, Carr, P. J., held that Code 1940, Tit. 14, § 360, making it an offense for any white person and any negro to intermarry or to live together in adultery or fornication and prescribing the... 1954 Cases Yes  
Robert A. Leflar , Wylie H. Davis Segregation in the Public Schools - 1953 67 Harvard Law Review 377 (January, 1954) THE legal problems which inhere in the movement away from racial segregation in American public schools are much broader and more numerous than the issues directly presented in the five cases now pending before the United States Supreme Court. Yet all these problems, as well as others that are primarily political, social, and economic, necessarily... 1954 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Sellers V. Wilson 123 F.Supp. 917, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number 991-N (9/10/1954) Suit against the members of a County Board of Registrars for a judgment declaring defendants' alleged policy, custom or usage in refusing to register plaintiffs as electors sorely because of their race or color, unlawful and unconstitutional, for a permanent injunction and for money damages. The District Court, Charles B. Kennamer, J., held that... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Simmons V. Steiner 34 Del.Ch. 593, Court of Chancery of Delaware, Sussex County (10/14/1954) Negro students brought suit against members of Board of Education to restrain them from denying Negroes their vested rights to attend high school. The Court of Chancery, Marvel, Vice Chancellor, held that where the United States Supreme Court entered decision declaring that all persons had the unqualified right to a public school education in which... 1954 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Simmons V. Steiner 34 Del.Ch. 593, Court of Chancery of Delaware, Sussex County (10/14/1954) Negro students brought suit against members of Board of Education to restrain them from denying Negroes their vested rights to attend high school. The Court of Chancery, Marvel, Vice... 1954 Trial Court Orders Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Sims V. Union News Co. 284 A.D. 335, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York (7/1/1954) Action against owner of station restaurant for assault and malicious prosecution in which it was alleged that defendant's employee in South Carolina had assaulted plaintiff while enforcing defendant's policy, adopted pursuant to statute, of segregating restaurant patrons. The Special Term, New York County, Aron Steuer, J., May 11, 1954, entered... 1954 Cases Yes  
  State ex Rel. Johnson V. Mayo 69 So.2d 307, Supreme Court of Florida, Division A (1/5/1954) Original proceeding in the Supreme Court on application for writ of habeas corpus. The Supreme Court, Sebring, J., held that petitioner who had previously had full opportunity to raise contention that death sentence imposed upon him for crime of murder in the first degree was excessive and discriminatory with reference to his age in that death... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Supplemental Brief for the State of Kansas on Questions 4 and 5 Propounded by the Court, Oliver Brown, Mrs. Richard Lawton, Mrs. Sadie Emmanuel, et Al., Appellants, V. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et Al., Appellees. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (11/16/1954) On May 17, 1954, this Court announced its opinion that racial segregation in public education per se is a denial of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment... 1954 Briefs Yes  
  Supplemental Brief for the State of Kansas on Questions 4 and 5 Propounded by the Court., Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (11/16/1954) On May 17, 1954, this Court announced its opinion that racial segregation in public education per se is a denial of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment... 1954 Briefs Yes  
  Supreme Court Equity Discretion: the Decrees in the Segregation Cases 64 Yale Law Journal 124 (November, 1954) In its decisions repudiating the doctrine of separate but equal in the field of public education, the Supreme Court called for further argument regarding an appropriate form of relief. Questions propounded by the Court center about three interlocking problems: (1) May the Court under its equity powers formulate a decree providing for gradual... 1954 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Taylor V. Leonard 30 N.J.Super. 116, Superior Court of New Jersey. Chancery Division, Docket Number C-1836 (3/8/1954) Action to enjoin public housing authority and its officers from continuing policy of using racial quota system for admissions to the housing project and of segregating those admitted... 1954 Trial Court Orders Yes  
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