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Ben Chester White (January 5, 1899 – June 10, 1966) was an African-American caretaker, uninvolved in the civil rights movement, shot down by the KKK. This was likely in an attempt to move focus away from James Meredith ’s March Against Fear or to lure Martin Luther King, Jr . in an assassination attempt.
The State of Missouri had offered to pay for Gaines's tuition at an adjacent state's law school, which he turned down. Gaines, assisted by the NAACP , sued the all-white university in 1935. The issue was whether Missouri violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by affording white people, not Black people, the ability to ...
In Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, [26] a case that started in Missouri's Eastern District went before the United States Supreme Court in 1988, it was held that public school curricular student newspapers are subject to a lower level of First Amendment protection. Another First Amendment case in public schools came up in 1998, when E.D. Mo. heard ...
“There is an overrepresentation of white victim cases among death sentences. When you look at Missouri homicide victim statistics, roughly 36% of homicide victims have been white. But 80% of ...
A white former Kansas City police officer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man was released from prison Friday after Missouri’s governor commuted ...
In Missouri, 41% of housing units occupied by Black residents are owned by the occupant, compared to 72% for white residents, according to data compiled by America’s Health Rankings.
Murthy v. Missouri (originally filed as Missouri v. Biden) was a case in the Supreme Court of the United States involving the First Amendment, the federal government, and social media. The states of Missouri and Louisiana, led by Missouri's then Attorney General Eric Schmitt, filed suit against the U.S. government in the Western District of ...
Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 U.S. 70 (1995), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court.On June 12, 1995 the Court, in a 5–4 decision, reversed a district court ruling that required the state of Missouri to correct intentional racial discrimination in Kansas City schools by funding salary increases and remedial education programs.