Manuscript/Mixed Material NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical Development; Levy, David, and Charles McGuinness, "The Status of the Law in Regard to Segregation in Education . . . ," circa 1953
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Image 1 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … NAACP Legal Defense Fund mss65570 box folder bag name item_title 006 10 mss6557000610 Office File 19391968 Committee on Historical Development Levy David and Charles McGuinness The
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 2 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … THE STATUS OF THE LAW IN REGARD TO SEGREGATION IN EDUCATION AT THE TIME OF THE PASSAGE OF THE POURTEENTH AMENDMENT TC THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION by David Levy and Charles McGuinness
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 3 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … The status of the Negro in relation to education in the states comprising the Union at the time of the passage of the Fourteenth Amend ment was as varied as the political…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 4 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … restricted to white youths of the states This pattern continued until the war between the states The pattern of segregation appears to have a somewhat similar origin but Negroes were allowed some…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 5 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … Alabama The state ccnstitution of 1865 provided that a uniform system of free public schools was to be establishedes The legislature complied with this mandate Admission to the schools was apparently unrestricted…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 6 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … the states fundamental law was altered to establish segregetion with respect to schools Article XIII sec 1s The General Assembly shall establish organize and maintain a system of public schools throughout the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 7 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … California Because the control of the legislature in its two houses was decisively divided with the Democrats controlling the one part and the Republicans the other it is said that California was…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 8 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … This example was followed in two or three towns but the system of separate schools under special legislation or the action of school committees was broken up by the legislature in 1868…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 9 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … An Act for the Establishment of Free Schools Sec 5 A school supported in a district pursuant to this Act shall commence on the first Monday of November next and on the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 10 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … preferences Secs 2 The Legislature shall provide a uniform system of common schools and a university and shall provide for the liberal maintenance of the same Instruction in them shall be free…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 11 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … read or write Thus it would seem that the Act was not meant to include Negroes All children between the ages of six and eighteen years within their respective counties are entitled…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 12 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … The Superintendent of Public Instruction for Illinois in his report to the Governor December 15 1868 made an impassioned plea for corrective legislation that would provide for the inclusion of Negro children…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 13 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … superintendent of schools who requested that something be done for the education of the Negro citizen In his report of December 31 1866 that official outlined a plan for the opening of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 14 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … determined by the color of his skin Colored citizens of Iowa are entitled to vote to hold office and hold property are a part of the militia and are entitled to the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 15 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … Sec 19 The inhabitants qualified to vote at a school meeting lawfully assembled shall have power 10 To make such order as they deem proper for the education of white and colored…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 16 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … made available to all previously rejected and was readmitted to the Federal Union in the same month at January 1877 the constitution as adopted in 1879 continued the above cited provision of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 17 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … Maryland Maryland occupying the unenviable position of a border state in which slavery was an institution of considerable proportion nevertheless elected to remain in the Union ed In pursuance of the mandate…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 18 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … for the Attendance of Children in the Schools Soe 3 All children within the commonwealth may attend the public schools in the place in which they have their legal residence subject to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 19 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … nright to attend any school therein and no separate school or department shall be kept for any persons on account of race or color Provided That this shall not be construed to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 20 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … 3s 1t further enacted That the schools in each county shall be so arranged as to afford ample free school facilities to all the educable youths in that county but white and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 21 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … 4 For the purpose of affording the advantage of free education to sll the white youth of this territory the territorizl common school fund shall hereafter consist of such sum as will…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 22 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … New Hampshire The laws of New Hampshire pertainine to the educational system between the years 1855 to 1878 are singularly free from any reference to racial or color disqualifications It is not…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 23 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … It is stated tht this act was not intended to deny to Negro children the privileges of regular school to which they were declared to be entitled by the state superintendent of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 24 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … and to the same extent as any other public school or schools of the same grade Laws North Carolina 1869 chaps CLXXXIV sec 50 ratified April 12 1869 57 Legislation of 1873…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 25 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … respective jurisdictions one or more separate schools for colored children when the whole number by enume ration exceeds twenty and when such schools will afford them as far as practiceble the advantages…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 26 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … contracts or maintain any suit therein and the legislative assembly shall provide by pensl laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulattoes and for their effectual exclusion…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 27 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … superintendent or teacher to meke any dis tinction whatever on account of or by reason of the race or color of any pupil or scholar who may be in attendance upon or…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 28 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … and this is due undoubtedly to the consequent upheaval of war generally and the special political upheaval of this particular ware As far as South Carolina is concerned the law by its…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 29 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … 3c it further enacted That the Civil District Board of Bducation in their Districts and the several other Boards of Education and Directors or other officers having authority in the premises of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 30 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … The situation in Texas is particularly obscure Prior to its entrance into the Union in 1845 Texas as a possession of Mexico and a Republic had numerous laws in regard to slaves…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 31 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … created in 1860 a common school system for the exclusive benefit of its white eitizenss If free Negroes and slaves were given any opportunity for education at this time it was provided…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 32 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … persons residing therein and between the ages aforesaid exceeds thirty according to the enumeration made for school purposesess Acts of West Virginia 1867 chap 98 sece 19 70 Wisconsin The state had…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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Image 33 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical … The Status of Negroes in Education As of the Day of Passage Segregation Alabama Arkansas California Florida Illinois Kansas Maryland Missouri Nevada New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee West…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1953
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- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Committee on Historical Development; Levy, David, and Charles McGuinness, "The Status of the Law in Regard to Segregation in Education . . . ," circa 1953
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- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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- - Law--United States
- - Civil rights--United States
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - African Americans--Segregation
- - Segregation--United States
- - United States--Race relations
- - United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
- - African Americans--Education
- - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- - African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc
- - African Americans--Political activity
- - Criminal law--United States
- - Discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
- - Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
- - Discrimination in education--United States
- - Discrimination in employment--United States
- - Discrimination in housing--United States
- - Discrimination in public accommodations--United States
- - Discrimination in the military--United States
- - Educational law and legislation--United States
- - Election law--United States
- - Housing--Law and legislation--United States
- - Labor laws and legislation--United States
- - Recreation centers--Law and legislation--United States
- - Suffrage--United States
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
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- Manuscripts
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- series: Office File, 1939-1968
- mss65570, box 6
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- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records
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- Discrimination in Education
- Discrimination in Employment
- Discrimination in Housing
- Discrimination in Public Accommodations
- Discrimination in the Military
- Education
- Educational Law and Legislation
- Election Law
- Housing
- Labor Laws and Legislation
- Law
- Law and Legislation
- Legal Status, Laws, Etc
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- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Political Activity
- Race Relations
- Recreation Centers
- Segregation
- Suffrage
- United States