AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  School Bd. Of Warren County V. Kilby 259 F.2d 497, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7760 (10/2/1958) Proceeding to enjoin school board from denying Negro residents of high school age right to attend only high school in county. The United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Harrisonburg, John Paul, J., granted injunction, and school board and superintendent of schools of county appealed. The Court of Appeals held that... 1958 Cases Yes  
  School Bd. Of Warren County V. Kilby 259 F.2d 497, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7760 (10/2/1958) Proceeding to enjoin school board from denying Negro residents of high school age right to attend only high school in county. The United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Harrisonburg, John Paul, J., granted injunction, and school board and superintendent of schools of county appealed. The Court of Appeals held that... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Sharp V. Lucky 252 F.2d 910, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 16687 (2/25/1958) Action by Negro attorney against registrar of voters for violation of his civil rights. From adverse judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., J., 148 F.Supp. 8, the attorney appealed. The Court of Appeals, Tuttle, Circuit Judge, held that complaint, which alleged that Negro attorney... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Sharp V. Lucky 252 F.2d 910, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 16687 (2/25/1958) Action by Negro attorney against registrar of voters for violation of his civil rights. From adverse judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., J., 148 F.Supp. 8, the attorney appealed. The Court of Appeals, Tuttle, Circuit Judge, held that complaint, which alleged that Negro attorney... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Sharp V. Lucky 165 F.Supp. 405, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Monroe Division, Docket Number CIV. 5734 (9/15/1958) Action for declaratory and injunctive relief against alleged action of registrar of voters for a certain parish in violating rights of plaintiff and other Negroes in segregating white and Negro races in her office. The District Court, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, held that where, if a wrong was done in segregating the races in defendant's... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Sharp V. Lucky 165 F.Supp. 405, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Monroe Division, Docket Number CIV. 5734 (9/15/1958) Action for declaratory and injunctive relief against alleged action of registrar of voters for a certain parish in violating rights of plaintiff and other Negroes in segregating white and Negro races in her office. The District Court, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, held that where, if a wrong was done in segregating the races in defendant's... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Shuttlesworth V. Birmingham Bd. Of Ed. Of Jefferson County, Ala. 162 F.Supp. 372, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV 8914 (5/9/1958) Class action by four Negro school children to test constitutionality of Alabama school placement law and to enjoin city school board, its members, agents, representatives and employees from enforcing the law and from refusing solely on basis of race or color or resentment by others to permit the children and others similarly situated to attend or... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Shuttlesworth V. Birmingham Bd. Of Ed. Of Jefferson County, Ala. 162 F.Supp. 372, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV 8914 (5/9/1958) Class action by four Negro school children to test constitutionality of Alabama school placement law and to enjoin city school board, its members, agents, representatives and employees from enforcing the law and from refusing solely on basis of race or color or resentment by others to permit the children and others similarly situated to attend or... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Slade V. Board of Ed. Of Harford County 252 F.2d 291, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7552 (2/12/1958) School segregation case. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore, Roszel C. Thomsen, Chief Judge, the appellants appealed. The United States Court of Appeals, Per Curiam, held that the discretion of the District Judge was properly exercised in the matter of desegregation of schools. Decree... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Slade V. Board of Ed. Of Harford County 252 F.2d 291, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7552 (2/12/1958) School segregation case. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore, Roszel C. Thomsen, Chief Judge, the appellants appealed. The United States Court of Appeals, Per Curiam, held that the discretion of the District Judge was properly exercised in the matter of desegregation of schools. Decree... 1958 Cases Yes  
  State V. Fletcher 236 La. 40, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 44002 (11/10/1958) Defendant was convicted in the Criminal District Court, Orleans Parish, Bernard J. Bagert, J., for illegal possession of marijuana, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, McCaleb, J., held that evidence would not sustain defendant's contention that Negroes had been systematically and unlawfully excluded by jury commission from general venire and petit... 1958 Cases Yes  
  State V. Fletcher 236 La. 40, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 44002 (11/10/1958) Defendant was convicted in the Criminal District Court, Orleans Parish, Bernard J. Bagert, J., for illegal possession of marijuana, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, McCaleb, J., held that evidence would not sustain defendant's contention that Negroes had been systematically and unlawfully excluded by jury commission from general venire and petit... 1958 Cases Yes  
  State V. Perry 248 N.C. 334, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 435 (5/7/1958) Defendant was convicted in the Superior Court of Union County, Clarkson, J., of using drugs and instruments with intent to procure miscarriage, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Parker, J., held that defendant had not been given reasonable opportunity and time to investigate and produce evidence of alleged racial discrimination as to grand jury.... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  State V. Perry 248 N.C. 334, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 435 (5/7/1958) Defendant was convicted in the Superior Court of Union County, Clarkson, J., of using drugs and instruments with intent to procure miscarriage, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Parker, J., held that defendant had not been given reasonable opportunity and time to investigate and produce evidence of alleged racial discrimination as to grand jury.... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Syres V. Oil Workers Intern. Union, Local 23 257 F.2d 479, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 16539 (7/18/1958) First local union composed of Negro employees and two Negro members thereof, individually and as representing a class, brought action against second local union composed of white employees and officers thereof to recover damages because collective bargaining agreement discriminated against Negro employees with respect to advancement. The United... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Syres V. Oil Workers Intern. Union, Local 23 257 F.2d 479, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 16539 (7/18/1958) First local union composed of Negro employees and two Negro members thereof, individually and as representing a class, brought action against second local union composed of white employees and officers thereof to recover damages because collective bargaining agreement discriminated against Negro employees with respect to advancement. The United... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Tate V. City of Eufaula, Ala. 165 F.Supp. 303, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1442-N (8/5/1958) Action by certain Negro citizens for a declaration of their legal relations and rights in connection with a certain residential development plan in which federal funds were to be spent, and for certain injunctive relief. Defendants moved for dismissal of the action. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that complaint failed to state a cause of... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Tate V. City of Eufaula, Ala. 165 F.Supp. 303, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1442-N (8/5/1958) Action by certain Negro citizens for a declaration of their legal relations and rights in connection with a certain residential development plan in which federal funds were to be spent, and for certain injunctive relief. Defendants moved for dismissal of the action. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that complaint failed to state a cause of... 1958 Cases Yes  
Ronald P. Klein The California Equal Rights Statutes in Practice 10 Stanford Law Review 253 (March, 1958) It is the design of this Article to consider the history and purpose of California's so-called civil rights statutes, their scope, the remedies available, and the relationship of these statutes to public policy. We are living in an era of increasing social consciousness with respect to the problems of racial and religious discrimination. We are... 1958 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Ronald P. Klein The California Equal Rights Statutes in Practice 10 Stanford Law Review 253 (March, 1958) It is the design of this Article to consider the history and purpose of California's so-called civil rights statutes, their scope, the remedies available, and the relationship of these statutes to public policy. We are living in an era of increasing social consciousness with respect to the problems of racial and religious discrimination. We are... 1958 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Thompson V. County School Bd. Of Arlington County, Va. 166 F.Supp. 529, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 1341 (9/17/1958) Proceeding for transfer of colored children to white schools. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, Albert V. Bryan, District Judge, held that evidence established that as to 26 of 30 colored pupils their applications for transfer to white schools were properly refused and as to the... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Thompson V. County School Bd. Of Arlington County, Va. 166 F.Supp. 529, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 1341 (9/17/1958) Proceeding for transfer of colored children to white schools. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, Albert V. Bryan, District Judge, held that evidence established that as to 26 of 30 colored pupils their applications for transfer to white schools were properly refused and as to the... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Tonkins V. City of Greensboro, N. C. 162 F.Supp. 549, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division, Docket Number CIV. C-61-G58 (5/23/1958) Action for a declaratory judgment and injunction by Negro citizens to enjoin defendants from refusing to permit plaintiffs to use a public swimming pool and to enjoin defendants from selling the swimming pool. The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, Stanley, J., held that declaratory judgment would not lie in... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Tonkins V. City of Greensboro, N. C. 162 F.Supp. 549, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division, Docket Number CIV. C-61-G58 (5/23/1958) Action for a declaratory judgment and injunction by Negro citizens to enjoin defendants from refusing to permit plaintiffs to use a public swimming pool and to enjoin defendants from selling the swimming pool. The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, Stanley, J., held that declaratory judgment would not lie in... 1958 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Tynes V. Gogos 144 A.2d 412, Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Docket Number 2131 (8/22/1958) Action for damages. From an order of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Division, C. J. Leonard P. Walsh, J., granting defendant's motion to dismiss the plaintiff's complaint, the plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals, Rover, C. J., held, inter alia, that a white woman who, with her husband who was a member of Negro race,... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Tynes V. Gogos 144 A.2d 412, Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Docket Number 2131 (8/22/1958) Action for damages. From an order of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Division, C. J. Leonard P. Walsh, J., granting defendant's motion to dismiss the plaintiff's complaint, the plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals, Rover, C. J., held, inter alia, that a white woman who, with her husband who was a member of Negro race,... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Washington V. Central of Georgia Ry. Co. 174 F.Supp. 33, United States District Court M.D. Georgia, Macon Division, Docket Number CIV. 711 (6/27/1958) Action by Negro fireman on railroad against union and railroad for rule to show cause why union railroad should not be held in civil contempt for certain alleged violations of the injunction in restraining railroad and union from racially discriminating against Negro firemen in their employment or occupation. The District Court, Bootle, J., held... 1958 Cases Yes  
  Washington V. Central of Georgia Ry. Co. 174 F.Supp. 33, United States District Court M.D. Georgia, Macon Division, Docket Number CIV. 711 (6/27/1958) Action by Negro fireman on railroad against union and railroad for rule to show cause why union railroad should not be held in civil contempt for certain alleged violations of the injunction in restraining railroad and union from racially discriminating against Negro firemen in their employment or occupation. The District Court, Bootle, J., held... 1958 Cases Yes  
  West V. Board of Ed. Of Prince George's County 165 F.Supp. 382, United States District Court D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 8679 (9/16/1958) Action by Maryland Negro school teacher against County Board of Education and County Superintendent of Schools for back salary which she alleged she had not received because of discrimination between white and Negro teachers. The District Court, Roszel C. Thomsen, Chief Judge, held that where teacher knew of her injury resulting from her failure to... 1958 Cases Yes  
  West V. Board of Ed. Of Prince George's County 165 F.Supp. 382, United States District Court D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 8679 (9/16/1958) Action by Maryland Negro school teacher against County Board of Education and County Superintendent of Schools for back salary which she alleged she had not received because of discrimination between white and Negro teachers. The District Court, Roszel C. Thomsen, Chief Judge, held that where teacher knew of her injury resulting from her failure to... 1958 Cases Yes  
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