AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Sharpe V. State 88 Ga.App. 876, Court of Appeals of Georgia, Division No. 2, Docket Number 34869 (10/15/1953) A defendant was convicted of assault with intent to rape. The Superior Court, Montgomery County, Eschol Graham, J., entered a judgment and defendant brought error. The Court of Appeals, Townsend, J., held that a charte to effect that in determining intent, differences in racial and social standings and customs could be considered, was not proper... 1953 Cases Yes  
  State V. Waitus 224 S.C. 12, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 16767 (7/28/1953) A defendant was convicted of murder. The General Sessions Court of Marion County entered a judgment and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Oxner, A. J., held that an unrebutted prima facie case of racial discrimination in selection of grand and petit jury was established. Judgment reversed and case remanded. 1953 Cases Yes  
Felix S. Gohen The Erosion of Indian Rights, 1950-1953: a Case Study in Bureaucracy 62 Yale Law Journal 348 (February, 1953) Our 450,000 American citizens who are members of Indian tribes are probably the only racial group in the United States whose rights are more limited in 1953 than they were in 1950. The erosion of Indian rights in this period and the factors which contributed to that erosion can be fairly evaluated only if we also view the background of Indian... 1953 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  The Supreme Court, 1952 Term 67 Harvard Law Review 96 (November, 1953) C1-5TABLE OF CONTENTS L1-5 I. L2-4,T4Constitutional Law 97 A. L3-4,T4Containment of Subversion 97. State Loyalty Oaths. 97 Exclusion of Aliens. 99 Selective Service. 102 B. L3-4,T4Civil Liberties 104. Fifteenth Amendment and Control of Pre-Primary Activity. 104 Damages for Breach of Restrictive Covenants. 105 Segregation in the District of... 1953 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Dewey J. Gonsoulin To Win These Rights 31 Texas Law Review 466 (April, 1953) While couched in the form of an autobiography, this book deals mainly with the efforts of the Congress of Industrial Organizations to achieve recognition in the South, as related by an ardent and persuasive CIO representative, Miss Lucy Randolph Mason. Miss Mason, descendant of a long line of distinguished Virginians including Robert E. Lee,... 1953 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Vann V. Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority 113 F.Supp. 210, United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 6989 (6/23/1953) Action by members of Negro race to obtain mandatory injunction against Public Housing Authority to compel it to accept their applications and to admit them to occupancy as tenants in public housing facilities. The District Court, Kloeb, J., held that since during pendency of the action the Authority adopted a resolution prohibiting segregation, a... 1953 Cases Yes  
  Wichita Falls Jr. College Dist. V. Battle 204 F.2d 632, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13967 (5/15/1953) Negroes brought action against junior college district and others to require admission of Negroes as members of the Negro race to the junior college. The District Court, William H. Atwell, J., 101 F.Supp. 82, entered judgment in favor of Negroes, and college district and others appealed. The Court of Appeals, Borah, Circuit Judge, held that as... 1953 Cases Yes  
  Administrative Law--primary Jurisdiction--labor--interference with Employment 100 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 892 (April, 1952) For more than forty years, two crafts performing similar braking duties have existed on the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. The membership of one, the train porter craft, is restricted to Negroes, while the other, the brakeman's craft, has been open only to the white race. In order to avert a strike which was threatened if the carrier continued to... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Belton V. Gebhart 32 Del.Ch. 343, Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County, Docket Number CIV. A. 258, CIV. A. 265 (4/1/1952) Action by Ethel Louise Belton, an infant, by her guardian ad litem, Ethel Belton, and others, against Francis B. Gebhart, and others and action by Barbara Bulah, an infant by her guardian ad litem, Sarah Bulah, and others against Francis B. Gebhart, involving question of constitutionality of segregation of negroes and whites by providing separate... 1952 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Brief of American Veterans Committee, Inc. (Avc) Amicus Curiae, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (10/9/1952) The issue in this case. This case raises the issue whether a State may require the separation, by race or color, of pupils in the public elementary schools, where such separation retards... 1952 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of American Veterans Committee, Inc. (Avc) Amicus Curiae, Oliver Brown, 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 (10/9/1952) The issue in this case. This case raises the issue whether a State may require the separation, by race or color, of pupils in the public elementary schools, where such separation retards... 1952 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of American Veterans Committee, Inc. (Avc) Amicus Curiae, Spottswood Thomas Bolling, et Al., Petitioners, V. C. Melvin Sharpe, et Al., Respondents. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 4 (12/1/1952) Preliminary Statement. This case raises for the first time in this Court the issue whether the Board of Education of the District of Columbia may constitutionally exclude Negro children,... 1952 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of American Veterans Committee, Inc. (Avc) Amicus Curiae, Spottswood Thomas Bolling, et Al., Petitioners, V. C. Melvin Sharpe, et Al., Respondents. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 8 (12/1/1952) Preliminary Statement. This case raises for the first time in this Court the issue whether the Board of Education of the District of Columbia may constitutionally exclude Negro children,... 1952 Briefs Yes  
  Briggs V. Elliott 342 U.S. 350, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 273 (1/28/1952) Action by Harry Briggs, Jr., and others, negro school children, against R. W. Elliott, and others, school officials, to enjoin the school officials from making any distinctions based upon race or color in providing educational facilities for School District No. 22, Clarendon County, South Carolina. The three judge United States District Court for... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Brown V. Board of Ed. Of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. 344 U.S. 1, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 8, 101, 191 (10/8/1952) Actions involving validity of segregation of Negro and white students. On appeal from the United States District Court for Kansas, and from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, and from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Supreme Court, Per Curiam, took judicial notice... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Byrd V. Brice 104 F.Supp. 442, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division, Docket Number CIV. 3122 (4/18/1952) Clarence Byrd, and others, brought an action against Mary K. Brice, registrar of voters, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, to enjoin defendants from denying the plaintiffs and other qualified negroes the right to register to vote on account of race or color. The District Court, Porterie, J., held that evidence established that registrar of voters... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Camp V. Recreation Bd. For District of Columbia 104 F.Supp. 10, United States District Court District of Columbia, Docket Number CIV. 3582-51 (4/10/1952) Action by Earl O. Camp, and others, against Recreation Board for the District of Columbia, and others, to determine the validity of segregation in public playgrounds. The District Court, Pine, J., held that the practice of the Board in designating certain playgrounds for white residents only was constitutional. Summary judgment for defendant. 1952 Cases Yes  
  Constitutional Law - Equal Protection of the Laws - Award of Damages for Breach of Racial Restrictive Covenant Denied as Violation of Fourteenth Amendment 66 Harvard Law Review 353 (December, 1952) Defendant sold his land to a Negro in violation of a restrictive covenant against its use and occupancy by a non-Caucasian. The agreement had not been made in connection with the transfer which subdivided the area, but was entered into by neighboring lot owners. Neither defendant nor plaintiff, an adjoining landowner, was an original party to the... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Davis V. County School Bd. Of Prince Edward County, Va. 103 F.Supp. 337, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, at Richmond, Docket Number CIV. 1333 (3/7/1952) Dorothy E. Davis and others brought action against the County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, and others to have constitutional and statutory provisions requiring the teaching of white and colored children in separate schools declared invalid and, in the alternative, to have inequalities between while and colored schools corrected.... 1952 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Dillard V. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. 199 F.2d 948, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 6454 (11/10/1952) Negro laborers employed by railroad brought action against railroad, labor organizations representing employees of railroad as bargaining agents, and association of labor organizations for declaratory judgment, injunction, and damages, on ground that Negro laborers were being discriminated against with reference to promotions. The District Court... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Gebhart V. Belton 33 Del.Ch. 144, Supreme Court of Delaware, Docket Number 15-18 (8/28/1952) Suits by Ethel Louise Belton, and others and by Shirley Barbara Bulah and others, against Francis B. Gebhart, and others to enjoin the defendants, who were officials of a state school system which segregated Negro and white students, from denying plaintiffs admittance to certain schools because of color or ancestry. The suits were consolidated and... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Grade School Segregation: the Latest Attack on Racial Discrimination 61 Yale Law Journal 730 (May, 1952) Social scientists consider segregation to be a basic form of racial discrimination. Regulating the multitude of daily contacts between races, it has become the primary symbol of the Negro's inferiority. Because the school is society's chief agency for conserving and transmitting its culture, educa tional segregation has extra significance. A... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Harris V. City of Daytona Beach 105 F.Supp. 572, United States District Court S.D. Florida, Jacksonville Division, Docket Number CIV. 1680-J (6/5/1952) Action by Joe Harris and others against the City of Daytona Beach and another for declaratory relief and permanent injunction to compel defendants to admit Negroes to performances at Auditorium when general public is admitted. Both parties moved for summary judgment. The United States District Court, Bryan Simpson, J., held that discrimination in... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Hayes V. Crutcher 108 F.Supp. 582, United States District Court M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division, Docket Number CIV. 1344 (11/21/1952) Action for a declaratory judgment and to enjoin city board of park commissioners from denying to negro citizens, on account of race, rights and privileges of using city golf courses equal to those afforded white persons and to enjoin racial segregation with respect to such golf courses. On plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, the District... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Hernandez V. State 160 Tex.Crim. 72, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 25816 (6/18/1952) Defendant was convicted of murder. The District Court, Jackson County, Frank W. Martin, J., overruled defendant's motions to quash indictment and petit jury panel on grounds of denial of equal protection of the law, and defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Davidson, J., held that discrimination against defendant was not shown in... 1952 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Mcswain V. County Bd. Of Ed. Of Anderson County, Tenn. 104 F.Supp. 861, United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northern Division, Docket Number 1555 (4/26/1952) Action by Joheather McSwain and others against the County Board of Education of Anderson County, Tennessee, and others for declaratory judgment and injunction restraining defendants from continuing alleged customs denying colored plaintiffs rights guaranteed them by the Fourteenth Amendment. The United States District Court for the Eastern District... 1952 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Morris V. State 158 Tex.Crim. 516, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 25892 (6/11/1952) Defendant was convicted in the Criminal District Court No. 3, Harris County, A. C. Winborn, J., of murder, and he appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Morrison, J., held that evidence failed to establish that there was such systematic exclusion of members of colored race in selection of grand jury commissioners as would require quashing... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Moses V. Corning 104 F.Supp. 651, United States District Court District of Columbia, Docket Number CIV. 509-52 (5/6/1952) Yvonne B. Moses, an infant by her father and next friend, Lemon H. Moses, Jr., in her own right and on behalf of all others similarly situated, brought action against Hobart M. Corning, Superintendent of Public Schools, and others to enjoin segregation in schools of the District of Columbia, on ground that Negro pupils were being discriminated... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Phillips V. Naff 332 Mich. 389, Supreme Court of Michigan, Docket Number 5 (3/6/1952) Action by Jesse Paul Phillips, and another, against Faris Naff, and another, for damages for an alleged breach of a reciprocal racial restriction. The Circuit Court, Wayne County, Frank B. Ferguson, J., granted defendants' motion to dismiss and plaintiffs appealed. The Supreme Court, Carr, J., held that an action for damages for breach of the... 1952 Cases Yes  
  Protection of Workers Against Union Discrimination 52 Columbia Law Review 399 (March, 1952) The National Labor Relations Act is designed to enable employees to marshal their collective strength so that they can bargain with employers in a position of approximate equality. To this end, the union which is the bargaining representative of the employees has been granted a great deal of power. It alone may authorize collective action, such as... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
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