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Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946), is a major United States Supreme Court case. In this landmark 1946 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–1 that Virginia's state law enforcing segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional.
Loving v. Virginia: Racial Segregation: 388 U.S. 1 (1967) state laws banning interracial marriage (anti-miscegenation laws) Berger v. New York: 388 U.S. 41 (1967) Telephone tapping in a bribery case, Fourth Amendment Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts: 388 U.S. 130 (1967) libel; effect of Sullivan on private figures United States v. Wade: 388 U.S ...
The act was part of a series of "racial integrity laws" enacted in Virginia to reinforce racial hierarchies and prohibit the mixing of races; other statutes included the Public Assemblages Act of 1926 (which required the racial segregation of all public meeting areas) and a 1930 act that defined any person with even a trace of sub-Saharan ...
A century ago, Virginia's Racial Integrity Act became a model for segregation. The impact on Native people is still being felt. How Virginia Used Segregation Law to Erase Native Americans
As summarized by the New York Times, "Virginia, which for nearly 50 years had to submit changes to its elections to the federal government for approval under the Voting Rights Act's preclearance requirements, has now effectively imposed the same covenants on itself, an extraordinary step for a state with a long history of segregation and ...
Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. [1] The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites only".
The Stanley Plan was a package of 13 statutes adopted in September 1956 by the U.S. state of Virginia.The statutes were designed to ensure racial segregation would continue in that state's public schools despite the unanimous ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v.
Many of the more integrated regions are areas with military bases, the researchers said—because segregation is so prevalent, it takes a concerted government effort to bring different races together.