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John H. Cross Jr. (January 27, 1925 – November 15, 2007) was an American pastor and Civil Rights activist. He was best known as the pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist congregation in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of church's racially motivated bombing in 1963.
Matthew James Perry Jr. (August 3, 1921 – July 29, 2011) was an attorney and in 1979 appointed as the first African-American United States district judge in South Carolina, serving on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
The federal income tax was strongly favored in the South, and it was moderately supported in the eastern North Central states, but it was strongly opposed in the Far West and the Northeastern States (with the exception of New Jersey). [15] The tax was derided as "un-Democratic, inquisitorial, and wrong in principle". [16] In Pollock v.
The Birmingham campaign, the March on Washington in August, the September bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church, and the November assassination of John F. Kennedy—an ardent supporter of the civil rights cause who had proposed a Civil Rights Act of 1963 on national television [76] —increased worldwide awareness of and sympathy toward the ...
In this, the Constitutional Court confirmed the reading of the High Court in South African Human Rights Commission v Khumalo. [4] Dealing with an ambiguity in the syntax of section 10(1), the court also agreed with Khumalo that paragraphs (a) to (c) of section 10(1) should be read conjunctively, rather than disjunctively as proposed by the ...
The civil rights activist was one of the lead plaintiffs in a case that went all the way to the US Supreme Court and upheld a key pillar of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. - Demetrius Freeman/The ...
Majority Opinion. It is the opinion of this court, by a 5-4 margin, that the District of Columbia is not the South. It is true that the capital of the United States is below the Mason-Dixon line ...
H. L. v. Matheson is a Supreme Court abortion rights case, according to which a state may require a doctor to inform a teenaged girl's parents before performing an abortion or face criminal penalty. Rostker v. Goldberg is a decision of the Supreme Court proclaiming that the practice of requiring only men to register for the draft was ...