ENFacsimile
Transcription
Status: Complete
Brown at 50 Chronology Page 4 of 7
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1936 | Pearson v. Murray, 182 A. 590 (Md. 1936): Maryland Court of Appeals holds that University of Maryland law school must grant admission to African Americans (Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall win the case against school that had refused admission to Marshall) |
| 1938 | Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337 (1938): Missouri must offer African-Americans substantially equal legal education which in effect requires admission to Missouri's all white law school |
| 1940 | NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund established under leadership of Thurgood Marshall |
| 1941 | Executive Order 8802, Pres. Roosevelt bars segregation by defense contractors |
| 1948 | Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Oklahoma, 332 U.S. 631 (1948): State law schools cannot discriminate against African Americans |
| 1948 | Shelley v. Kramer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948): Racial restrictive covenants in private housing violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| 1948 | Perez v. Lippod (aka Perez v. Sharp), 32 Cal. 2d 711, 198 P.2d 17 (1948): California's ban on interracial marriage violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| 1948 | United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| 1950 | McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U.S. 637 (1950); Student in graduate school of education must be treated equally; cannot have separate assigned seating in classrooms, library, etc. |
| 1950 | Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950): Legal education cannot be separate and equal so African American must be admitted to University of Texas law school; the separate law school was not equal |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (Brown I): Plessy overturned; separate-but-equal violates the 14th Amendment guarantee of Equal Protection |
| 1951 | Brown b. Board of Education, case decided in lower court in Arkansas which became the lead case in the four cases consolidated for appeal in Brown I |
| 1952 | Briggs v. Elliot, South Carolina case, one of the four cases consolidated for appeal in Brown I |
| 1952 | Davis v. County School Board or Prince Edward County Virginia, Virginia case, one of the four cases consolidated for appeal in Brown I |
| 1952 | Gebhart v. Belton, Delaware case, one of the four cases consolidated for appeal in Brown I |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)(Brown I): Plessy overturned; separate-but-equal violates the 14th Amendment guarantee of Equal Protection |
http://www.brownat50.org/brownChrono/BrownChronology.htm 1/17/2004
Notes and Questions
Nobody has written a note for this page yet
Please sign in to write a note for this page