Manuscript/Mixed Material NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. Levitt & Sons, Inc. (housing, Pa.); Legal documents, 1954-1955
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Image 1 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … RAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND BOX_o CFOLDER CASE FILE
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 2 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 4 memo from david pinsky August 13 1954 TO Mr Thurgood Marshall Attached is a copy of a revised complaint in the Levittown case Copies of this complaint have been sent to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 3 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … Plaintiffs on behalf of therselves and others similarly situated Civil Action ont BF pa L AR AD 2 WitI THE 8 i ol FLT Wk isda AIT He y La JE PRA…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 4 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 60Lm and Title 3 United States Code ii3 The amount in controversy as to each of the plaintiffs exceeds threes thousand dollars 3000 exclusive of interest and costs 2 The Jurisdiction of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 5 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … in Trenton New Jersey James Bryant and his wife Ophelia Bryant are residents of Lawnside Hew Jersey all are etl zans of the State of Law Jersey be Plaintires Arthur Le Johnson…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 6 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … individual plaintiffs is élass is fairly snd adequately represented by the plaintiffs herein DEFENDABRTS 8 Uelfendant Levitt and Sons Iney 18 a Hew York corpore ation doling business in Ducks County Pennsylvania…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 7 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … Loan Guarantee Section of the Philadelphia Heglional Office of the Veterans Administration and is an officer and agent of the Unlted States Government and an agent of defendant Harvey V Higley He…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 8 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … mortgage insurance provided by the Federal Housing Administra tion and the Veterans Adainistration 3 Accordingly defendant Levitt and Sons Ine and various lending institutions which had committed themselves te finance the purchase…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 9 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … paragraphs 6 through GB 6 With respect to insurance issued both under 3203 and 903 of the Jlational Housing Act the rules of the Federal Rousing Administration provide that the mortgagor certify…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 10 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … Bs In the case of mortgages insured under 903 the rules and regulations adopted by the Federal Housing Adminie stration Turther provide that the mortgagor must establish in a manner satisfactory to…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 11 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 3s 1 gud Pale rr Be I oy the authority given by the Cone po ils Zeoting pursua irays defendant Aigley and hls predecessors in office put into effect various rules and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 12 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … homes by white persona only and that ne homes would be sold to egress Defendants Mason Kelley Higley and Sngard made comnl taents af federal insurance with full ctowisdas that the ald…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 13 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … FE Se i a ET i Hats h o i ds to pronotes the consiruction of 1s Yin of homes 8 low gi i os Soi wn we ae FV 4 ol…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 14 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … James snd ine at Levit sales offic gsyivania on or about 1 defendant arin rents and employeas of 8 sansylivan informed 8 nome in Le rd ME ad é 55 i i…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 15 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … or leass homes to competent defense workers who are members of the Fegro PROS even though said aprlicants were at all times ready willing and able to buy or rent home and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 16 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … COURT II ls Flaintiffs assert this additional ground for relief only agalnst defendant Levitt snd Sons Ine 2 Flaintiifs hereby incorporate and adopt by reference all the allegations set forth in paragraphs…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 17 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania operating under the control and supervision of various officials of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Including in part officials of the Department of Health the Department of Education…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 18 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … regulating the use of all residential property 8 The acts of defendant Levitt and Sons Ind in refusing te sell or lease homes in Levittown Pennsylvania to persons solely pecause of thelr…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 19 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … at Levittown Pennsylvania to all members of the publie who apply in good falth are able and willing to pay the negessary down payment and have good reputations and satis fagtory credit…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 20 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … where homes are sold or petites to members of the public le Defendant Levitt and Sons Ine has advertised extensively in the newspapers snd in other media of adver tising and has…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 21 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 0 we Code 1702 et seq and Title 38 United ftates Code 369L89Le 69L4 60Le 6La 694n and the rules and regulations prommle gated pursuant thereto and using the power guarantee insu…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 22 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … e of the class whieh Shey represent solely because ef thelr race or color That defendants Mason Helley Higley and Enyard are under a statutory duty lLapoesed Ly Title 12 United States…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 23 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … in Levittown Pennsylvania end being subject to regulation by the State of Fennsylvania and being subject to the rules and regulations of the Commissioner of the Federal Housing Ade ministration a federal…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 24 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … a Refusing to sell or lease a house in Levittown Pennsylvania to the plaintiffs or members of the class which they represent solely because of their race or color 30 long as…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 25 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … defendants Mason Kelley Higley snd Engard and their agents servants employees and all persons and wrporations acting or elalaing to act on behalf of Them from insuring mortgages covering property constructed and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 26 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … August 30 1955 Memorandum TO Mrs Motley FROM William Taylor RE Amount in Controversy in Johnson v Levitt It is a well established principle that the value of the object sought by…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 27 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … and NoR Coe supra Kelly v Lehigh Nav Coal Co Inc supra Ebensberger v Sinclair Refining Co supra Minor v City eof Keokuk supra Walsh ve Boston and MRRe Coe Supra The…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 28 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … In Scott ve Donald supra plaintiff an importer of liquor brought sult to enjoin defendants from seizing his liquor while purporting to act under a state statute The Supreme Court affirming a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 29 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 1 taxes Since payment of the tax would end the controversy the court found that avoidance of the tax was the object of the suit and the tax itself rather than any…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 30 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … cor y 7 tl aT 3 J o
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 31 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 0 yve N onal UJ a al On moa a CooL TL r Va
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 32 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 42 Cy 1
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 33 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … es Jap ad Hd THE PUBLIC INTEREST AT STAKE IN THIS CASE A long depression population shifts end a major war curtailed the supply of adequate housing within the finenclal reach of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 34 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … Reeisl restrictions on the housing supply have operated to create a market which 1s economically dise criminstory The Hegro homeseeker unable to bargain with others on equal terms for his shelter receives…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 35 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … United States Supreme Court in 19517 Following this however such restrictions were effected through Judie clel enforcement of private racisl covenants This form of governmental sctlon was prohiblted by the United Stetes…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 36 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 4 families shall te excluded altogether from these federallyaided pro Jects or segregated in separate projects or otherwise discriminated azainstgolely because of the color of their skins and not because of their…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 37 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … the average working man cannot afford to work in an area where living accomodations are not reasonably assessible The allwhite pattern of the Levittowns however is the pattern of all of the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 38 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … I The Provision of Housing For Families of Low and Moderate Incomes Has Become A Ma jor Federal Function In 1892 the Federal Government appropriated 20000 for an investigation of slums in…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 39 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … mortgages to member homefinancing institutions As of June 30 1949 there were 11 regional banks providing a credit reservoir for Eg member institutions with assets totaling about 18 500000000 In addition under…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 40 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … World Nar II mortgages were insured on 962 000 dwellings for war Workers and after the war for veterans Ly In connection with the mortgage insurance program the Congress authorized the establishment…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
About this Item
Title
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. Levitt & Sons, Inc. (housing, Pa.); Legal documents, 1954-1955
Names
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Created / Published
- 1954 - 1955
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
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Legal Case File, 1915-1967
- mss65570, box 222
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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