Manuscript/Mixed Material NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955
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Image 1 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND OFFICE FILES BOX FOLDER
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 2 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC MONTHLY REPORT January 1955 January besides giving birth to a new year also gave birth to two new additions to the Inc Fund On January…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 3 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 3 J Irvin v Chapman On January 10 the Supreme Court denied our petition for a writ of certiorari see November 195l Report to review a judgment of the Florida Supreme Court…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 4 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Clemmons v Board of Bducation of Hillsboro Ohio The Federal District Court issued an opinion on January 28 in which injunctive relief was denied Negro parents and children who con tested the…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 5 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 HOSPITAL LITIGATION Johnson ve Crawfis This case a suit seeking to compel the admission of a minor Negro incompetent to Arkansas State Hospital for the Insane was tried in the Federal District…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 6 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 the order When apprised of this our local attorney A T Walden of Atlanta forwarded a copy of the order to the Court on January 15 This remedied the oversight However the…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 7 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 relocation of these families naming both local and federal housing authorities as parties defendant In dismissing the complaint the Judge ruled that our complaint did not comply with the requirement of brevity…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 8 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 discontinuance of racial segregation in the restaurants operated by the Union News Co in the Broad Street Terminal Richmond Va The brief was filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission on January 15…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 9 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 elementary schools was still maintained exclusively for Negroes by definite gerrymandering and a policy whereby all white children were assigned to schools outside this school zone The Board admitted maintenance of a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 10 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Mr Tate January 30 Sunday Evening Speaker Unitarian Church of Albuquerque N Mex irs Chisolm January 21 Discussion Leader Lower Westchester Civic Assn Tuckahoe N Y January 22 Speaker Sarah Lawrence College…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 11 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC MONTHLY REPORT February 1955 During this month action has been taken or developments have arisen in fifteen cases and several military matters Outstand ing are…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 12 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 EDUCATION CASES Anderson v Board of Education of Englewood N J On February 1 the joint brief of the Attorney General of New Jersey and Fund Counsel was filed with the State…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 13 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Steiner ve Simmons On February 8 the Supreme Court of Delaware reversed a judgment of the chancery court which had ordered the Milford School Board to readmit the Negro high school students…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 14 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Hearings on the final phases of this litigation were held on February 3 through February 7 After taking further evidence and considering the arguments advanced by opposing counsel the court suggested that…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 15 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Watts v Housing Authority of Birmingham District A new complaint was prepared and filed on February 28 in the Federal District Court In January we reported that the original complaint challenging the…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 16 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 For background on these cases see earlier monthly reports October 195L January 1955 especially TRANSPORTATION CASES NAA CLP vo Ste LouisSan Francisco Ry Co Staff counsel on February lL filed with the…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 17 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 attitude had been undoubtedly a manifestation of his war trauma which required psychosocial therapy rather than military disci pline In Spencers case on the other hand review of his undesirable separation from…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 18 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 a Negro teachers and protect the jobs of qualified individual teachers and three to enlist the cooperation of the teacher groups in car rying on educational and informational activities aimed at both…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 19 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Mr Chisolm Mr Greenberg Miss Shagaloff Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb Febe Feb Feb Feb 17 23 21 16 20 26 Conferee Dept of Welfare Conference on Human Relations New York…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 20 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC MONTHLY REPORT March April 1955 Highlighting this months report and responsible for the non appearance of a separate report for March is the reargument of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 21 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Court of Mississippi At the request of local private counsel who represented petitioner both at trial and before the state Supreme Court staff counsel have prepared a petition for a writ of…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 22 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 In Re Mary K Jackson Staff counsel have submitted a brief amicus curiae to the State Superintendent of Iducation on behalf of relator a Negro school teacher who has asserted that she…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 23 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 September 1955 as an outside date and 2 the type of decree which we would prefer should the Court decide to order a gradual transi tion to nonsegregated schools and where we…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 24 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 The plaintiff had been refused on the ground of race or color permission to enroll in Texas Western College The defendants named are the president of Texas Western College other admin istrative…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 25 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Thus the Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit has resolved the doubts which his earlier opinion in the Tureaud case raised and we will not be required to seek a threejudge court…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 26 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Defendants principle contention on appeal was that it needed further time to condition white occupants of public housing and adjacent white home owners to accept Negro tenants Their efforts were clearly attempts…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 27 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 The suit against Levitt and Sons as you may recall was filed on January 13 on behalf of six Negro veterans who were denied opportunity to buy homes in a 16000 home…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 28 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 RECREATION CASES Charlotte Park and Recreation Commission et al v Barringer et al Cross appeals were filed by the Commission and Negro parties to this litigation involving the use of a public…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 29 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 It was hoped that this matter would be disposed of and the swimming facilities opened to Negroes for the coming summer months but some doubt has been cast on this possibility in…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 30 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 use the bus exit which had been reserved exclusively for Negroes did not violate any civil right protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States The Court reasoned that it…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 31 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 3 Herbert Brown Gurnit Dixon William C Earl Donald B Hightower Ruth B Jackson Earl P Johnson Gordon E Mills Willie J Morgan Anderson Shields James R Workman applications denied by Army…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 32 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 lis Re George L Powell This person was convicted by military CourtMartial and sought our assistance in filing a suit against the government under the federal Tort Claims Act allegedly because of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 33 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Speaker New England Regional Con ference NAACP Providence R I Speaker Lafayette College Baston Pa Speaker Bates College Maine Speaker Colgate College Hamilton N Y Speaker meeting New York City Community Church…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 34 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Mrs Motley Miss Shagaloff March March April April April March April Lecturer class on law and social science New York N YX Addressee Sussex County Branch NAACP Wilmington Del Speaker NAACP Speaker…
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- Date: 1955
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Image 35 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 2 é NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC MONTHLY REPORT May 1955 CRIMINAL CASES Hale v State of Tennessee In response to a request for assistance from Attorney Z Alexander Looby…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 36 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 B 2 in view of the Supreme Courts remand of the case to the Circuit Court on May 24 1954 following the School Segrega tion Cases decision and the Circuit Courts remand…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 37 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 a The courts are to require a prompt and rea sonable start toward desegregation b Once local school authorities have made this start the courts may allow them additional time only for…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 38 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Pending compliance with its orders DAD continued Jurisdiction over these proceedings and deferred final dispo sition of the complaints filed against the Englewood Board of Education by several Negro mothers The complaints…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 39 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 Pearson v Olney Gardens Inc Final disposition of this case was made on May 2 when the Federal District Court in Philadelphia granted a motion to dis miss the case as being…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1955
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Image 40 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955 during the summer months staff counsel filed on Mey 21 a motion requesting the Fourth Circuit to clarify or vacate the stay This motion was argued orally in Richmond on May 26…
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- Date: 1955
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Title
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Office File, 1939-1968; Reports; Monthly; 1955
Names
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Headings
- - 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 31
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- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records
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- Manuscript Division
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- African Americans
- Armed Forces
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Law
- Discrimination
- Discrimination in Criminal Justice Administration
- 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
- Manuscripts
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Political Activity
- Race Relations
- Recreation Centers
- Segregation
- Suffrage
- United States