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Then in 1946, two years previous to the Bastrop case, the judge in Mendez v. Westminster ruled against the segregation of Mexican-American children in public schools. [6] This case occurred in California, but its arguments, based on the rights to equal protection and due process, could be applied elsewhere in the United States.
Segregation was enforced across the U.S. for much of its history. Racial segregation follows two forms, De jure and De facto. De jure segregation mandated the separation of races by law, and was the form imposed by slave codes before the Civil War and by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws following the war.
Lopez v. Seccombe. 71 F. Supp. 769. 1, US District Court for the Southern District of California, 1944, was a 1944 court case within the city and county of San Bernardino about whether Mexican Americans were able to use the city's public pool at any time despite the cities restricted limits.
Taylor v. Board of Education of City School District of New Rochelle, 195 F. Supp. 231 (S.D.N.Y. 1961), was a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that the Board of Education in New Rochelle, NY had created a segregated school system through racially discriminatory policies that confined all black children to Lincoln School, while ...
Harry T. Moore, executive director of the Florida NAACP, challenged segregation and law enforcement. In the 1940s and the early 1950s, he succeeded in gaining voter registration of tens of thousands of blacks, who had been essentially disfranchised since a new state constitution at the turn of the century. Following the convictions and ...
Restrictions that prohibited people of color from buying, renting, or occupying the property in the 1920s to 1940s have been found by researchers. History uncovered: UW research finds thousands of ...
Board of Education, Trenton, NJ, 131 N.J.L. 153, 35 A.2d 622 (1944), also known as the Hedgepeth–Williams case, was a landmark New Jersey Supreme Court decision decided in 1944. The Court ruled that since racial segregation was outlawed by the New Jersey State Constitution, it was unlawful for schools to segregate or refuse admission to ...
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.