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The convictions were vacated by the Court of Appeals of Maryland on April 9, 1965, and the City of Baltimore was directed to pay the cost of the appeal to the Supreme Court of $462.93 to Robert M. Bell, [3] the named defendant in the case. Robert Bell's listing as the named defendant was accidental as his name was alphabetically first among the ...
Pearson on June 25, 1935, as part of its widening social program, and retained Belford Lawson to litigate the case. By the time the case reached court, Murray was represented by Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall of the Baltimore National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [3] Houston and Marshall used Murray v.
Alabama, 376 U.S. 650 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that an African-American woman, Mary Hamilton, was entitled to be greeted with the same courteous forms of address which were customarily and solely reserved for whites in the Southern United States, [30] and that calling a black person by their first ...
Ferguson (1896) Supreme court case upheld the principle of "separate but equal", [24] Maryland passed a series of legislation that segregated the state by race. Starting in 1902, Democratic legislators proposed a bill to segregate transportation, but the combined efforts of railroad and steamship companies and over one thousand opposing ...
A research team at the University of Washington published a map that marked over 2,300 properties in Kitsap County that had racial restrictions between the 1920s to 1940s.
Griffin v. Maryland, 378 U.S. 130 (1964), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the convictions of five African Americans who were arrested during a protest of a privately owned amusement park by a park employee who was also a deputy sheriff. [1]
Rosenwald schools in Maryland (8 P) Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in Maryland" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Maryland was required to pay black and white teachers equally by 1941, based on a case argued by Thurgood Marshall. In 1955, schools in Maryland were forced to start the process of integration with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and this process not completed until 1967, with mixed success. [8] [9] [10]