AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Civil Rights - in General - Federal Courts May Enjoin Interference by Private Parties with Desegregation Efforts of School Officials 70 Harvard Law Review 1299 (May, 1957) The appellees, directors of the Hoxie School District in Arkansas, ordered the desegregation of the public schools of the district following a determination that there were no administrative obstacles thereto. The desegregation proved acceptable to a majority of the citizens of the district and the newly integrated schools were in session for... 1957 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Com. Of Pa. V. Board of Directors of City Trusts of City of Philadelphia 353 U.S. 230, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 769 (4/29/1957) Proceeding for citation to Philadelphia Board of Directors of City Trusts to show cause why certain Negro applicants should not be admitted to school which was administered by the Board as trustee and which had been established pursuant to will providing that it should be operated for white male orphans. From a decree of the Orphans' Court of... 1957 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Com. Of Pa. V. Board of Directors of City Trusts of City of Philadelphia 353 U.S. 230, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 769 (4/29/1957) Proceeding for citation to Philadelphia Board of Directors of City Trusts to show cause why certain Negro applicants should not be admitted to school which was administered by the Board as trustee and which had been established pursuant to will providing that it should be operated for white male orphans. From a decree of the Orphans' Court of... 1957 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Davis V. County School Bd. Of Prince Edward County 149 F.Supp. 431, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division, Docket Number CIV. 1333 (1/23/1957) School segregation case. On plaintiffs' motion for an order fixing a time limit for compliance with injunction, the District Court, Hutcheson, Chief Judge, held that, upon consideration of facts of instant case, the Court should not now fix time limit for compliance with injunction. Order accordingly. 1957 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Davis V. County School Bd. Of Prince Edward County 149 F.Supp. 431, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division, Docket Number CIV. 1333 (1/23/1957) School segregation case. On plaintiffs' motion for an order fixing a time limit for compliance with injunction, the District Court, Hutcheson, Chief Judge, held that, upon consideration of facts of instant case, the Court should not now fix time limit for compliance with injunction. Order accordingly. 1957 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Dobbins V. Commonwealth 198 Va. 697, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (1/21/1957) Prosecution of a father of a child under 16 years of age, for violating compulsory school attendance law. Defendant was found guilty and from conviction he appealed. The Supreme Court of Appeals held that where defendant, father of a Negro child, presented child to white school for enrollment, and the physical facilities and educational... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Dobbins V. Commonwealth 198 Va. 697, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (1/21/1957) Prosecution of a father of a child under 16 years of age, for violating compulsory school attendance law. Defendant was found guilty and from conviction he appealed. The Supreme Court of Appeals held that where defendant, father of a Negro child, presented child to white school for enrollment, and the physical facilities and educational... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Evans V. Buchanan 152 F.Supp. 886, United States District Court D. Delaware, Docket Number CIV. 1816-1822 (7/15/1957) Actions for injunction requiring that colored students be admitted to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis. The United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Paul Leahy, Chief Judge, held that motion for consolidation should be granted; that plaintiff's motion for summary judgment should be granted and the defendant... 1957 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Evans V. Buchanan 152 F.Supp. 886, United States District Court D. Delaware, Docket Number CIV. 1816-1822 (7/15/1957) Actions for injunction requiring that colored students be admitted to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis. The United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Paul Leahy, Chief Judge, held that motion for consolidation should be granted; that plaintiff's motion for summary judgment should be granted and the defendant... 1957 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Evans V. Young 5 McCanless 368, Supreme Court of Tennessee (2/8/1957) Proceeding to determine whether collateral heirs of deceased Negro born of slave parents in foreign state should take real estate left by him in perference to devisees of his wife. The Chancery Court, Shelby County, Ceylon B. Frazer, Chancellor, held that collateral heirs inherited, and devisees appealed. The Supreme Court, Burnett, J., held that... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Evans V. Young 5 McCanless 368, Supreme Court of Tennessee (2/8/1957) Proceeding to determine whether collateral heirs of deceased Negro born of slave parents in foreign state should take real estate left by him in perference to devisees of his wife. The Chancery Court, Shelby County, Ceylon B. Frazer, Chancellor, held that collateral heirs inherited, and devisees appealed. The Supreme Court, Burnett, J., held that... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Garmon V. Miami Transit Co. 151 F.Supp. 953, United States District Court S.D. Florida, Miami Division, Docket Number CIV. 7210-M (1/4/1957) Suit for declaration that Miami ordinances requiring racial segregation on city buses were unconstitutional, brought against the city, the bus company, and others. On motion to convene a three-judge District Court, the District Court, Choate J., held that in view of stipulation that ordinances were, in all substantial respects, identical with... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Garmon V. Miami Transit Co. 151 F.Supp. 953, United States District Court S.D. Florida, Miami Division, Docket Number CIV. 7210-M (1/4/1957) Suit for declaration that Miami ordinances requiring racial segregation on city buses were unconstitutional, brought against the city, the bus company, and others. On motion to convene a three-judge District Court, the District Court, Choate J., held that in view of stipulation that ordinances were, in all substantial respects, identical with... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Gibson V. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, Fla. 246 F.2d 913, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 16482 (7/23/1957) Action, for declaratory and injunctive relief, filed by plaintiffs who had allegedly unsuccessfully petitioned Board of Public Instructions for abolition of racial segregation in public schools of county. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Emett C. Choate, J., dismissed the complaint, and the complainants... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Gibson V. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, Fla. 246 F.2d 913, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 16482 (7/23/1957) Action, for declaratory and injunctive relief, filed by plaintiffs who had allegedly unsuccessfully petitioned Board of Public Instructions for abolition of racial segregation in public schools of county. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Emett C. Choate, J., dismissed the complaint, and the complainants... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Heintz V. Board of Ed. Of Howard County 213 Md. 340, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 179 (5/10/1957) Mandamus proceeding by county resident-taxpayers and to compel County Board of Education and members thereof to establish and maintain separate schools for colored children under Maryland statute providing for separate schools for colored youths. The Circuit Court, Howard County, James Macgill, J., dismissed petition and entered judgment for costs,... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Heintz V. Board of Ed. Of Howard County 213 Md. 340, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 179 (5/10/1957) Mandamus proceeding by county resident-taxpayers and to compel County Board of Education and members thereof to establish and maintain separate schools for colored children under Maryland statute providing for separate schools for colored youths. The Circuit Court, Howard County, James Macgill, J., dismissed petition and entered judgment for costs,... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Heyward V. Public Housing Administration 154 F.Supp. 589, United States District Court S.D. Georgia, Savannah Division, Docket Number CIV. 753 (7/9/1957) Action to declare plaintiffs' rights in regard to eligibility for certain public housing, and, inter alia, to enjoin defendants from refusing to accept plaintiffs' applications for certain public housing projects, and from refusing to admit plaintiffs to any public housing unit for which they were eligible solely because of plaintiffs' race. The... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Holley V. City of Portsmouth, Va. 150 F.Supp. 6, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division, Docket Number CIV. 2261 (4/10/1957) Action for preliminary and permanent injunction restraining city, its officers and agents from discriminating against plaintiffs in use of golf facilities. The District Court, Hoffman, J., held that where city had complied with temporary injunction restraining city, its officers and agents from denying free and unrestricted use and enjoyment of... 1957 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Holley V. City of Portsmouth, Va. 150 F.Supp. 6, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division, Docket Number CIV. 2261 (4/10/1957) Action for preliminary and permanent injunction restraining city, its officers and agents from discriminating against plaintiffs in use of golf facilities. The District Court, Hoffman, J., held that where city had complied with temporary injunction restraining city, its officers and agents from denying free and unrestricted use and enjoyment of... 1957 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Jeanpierre V. Arbury 3 A.D.2d 514, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York (5/7/1957) Proceeding on application for an order annulling and rescinding determination of state commission against discrimination dismissing petitioner's complaint. The Supreme Court at Special Term, Henry Clay Greenberg, J., entered order denying petitioner's application and petitioner appealed. The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, held that the law... 1957 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Jeanpierre V. Arbury 3 A.D.2d 514, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York (5/7/1957) Proceeding on application for an order annulling and rescinding determination of state commission against discrimination dismissing petitioner's complaint. The Supreme Court at Special Term, Henry Clay Greenberg, J., entered order denying petitioner's application and petitioner appealed. The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, held that the law... 1957 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
Alan F. Westin John Marshall Harlan and the Constitutional Rights of Negroes: the Transformation of a Southerner 66 Yale Law Journal 637 (April, 1957) When the United States Supreme Court announced its decision in the Segregation Cases, a New York Times editorial commenting on the decision was headed, appropriately enough, Justice Harlan Concurring. The editorial began: It is eighty-six years since the Fourteenth Amendment was proclaimed a part of the United States Constitution. It is... 1957 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Alan F. Westin John Marshall Harlan and the Constitutional Rights of Negroes: the Transformation of a Southerner 66 Yale Law Journal 637 (April, 1957) When the United States Supreme Court announced its decision in the Segregation Cases, a New York Times editorial commenting on the decision was headed, appropriately enough, Justice Harlan Concurring. The editorial began: It is eighty-six years since the Fourteenth Amendment was proclaimed a part of the United States Constitution. It is... 1957 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Jones V. American President Lines, Limited 149 Cal.App.2d 319, District Court of Appeal, First District, Division 2, California, Docket Number CIV. 17077 (3/20/1957) Action for damages resulting from alleged conspiracy among port captain, shipping master and shipping company to deny plaintiff his rights to employment as a cook because plaintiff was a Negro. From adverse judgment entered in Superior Court, City & County of San Francisco, Frank T. Deasy, J., after demurrer to complaint had been sustained without... 1957 Cases Yes Overruling Risk
  Jones V. American President Lines, Limited 149 Cal.App.2d 319, District Court of Appeal, First District, Division 2, California, Docket Number CIV. 17077 (3/20/1957) Action for damages resulting from alleged conspiracy among port captain, shipping master and shipping company to deny plaintiff his rights to employment as a cook because plaintiff was a Negro. From adverse judgment entered in Superior Court, City & County of San Francisco, Frank T. Deasy, J., after demurrer to complaint had been sustained without... 1957 Cases Yes Overruling Risk
  Lambert V. Mandel's of Cal. 156 Cal.App.2d Supp. 855, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California, Docket Number CA 9407 (12/13/1957) Action against defendant operating retail shoe stores who refused to serve plaintiffs allegedly because they were members of the colored race. A general demurrer to the complaint was sustained in the Municipal Court of the Los Angeles Judicial District, Lucius P. Green, J., and the plaintiffs appealed. The Superior Court, Appellate Department,... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Lambert V. Mandel's of Cal. 156 Cal.App.2d Supp. 855, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California, Docket Number CA 9407 (12/13/1957) Action against defendant operating retail shoe stores who refused to serve plaintiffs allegedly because they were members of the colored race. A general demurrer to the complaint was sustained in the Municipal Court of the Los Angeles Judicial District, Lucius P. Green, J., and the plaintiffs appealed. The Superior Court, Appellate Department,... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Ludley V. Board of Sup'rs of L. S. U. 150 F.Supp. 900, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number CIV. 1836, CIV. 1837, CIV. 1833 (4/15/1957) Declaratory judgment and injunction proceedings by Negroes against University Board of Supervisors and Louisiana State Board of Education to determine constitutionality of statutes by which legislature sought to preserve segregation in state educational institutions. The District Court, J. Skelly Wright, J., held that statute which requires, as... 1957 Cases Yes  
  Ludley V. Board of Sup'rs of L. S. U. 150 F.Supp. 900, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number CIV. 1836, CIV. 1837, CIV. 1833 (4/15/1957) Declaratory judgment and injunction proceedings by Negroes against University Board of Supervisors and Louisiana State Board of Education to determine constitutionality of statutes by which legislature sought to preserve segregation in state educational institutions. The District Court, J. Skelly Wright, J., held that statute which requires, as... 1957 Cases Yes  
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