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Supreme Court rules in 3 discrimination cases...
Supreme Court rules in 3 discrimination cases...
Item # 705402
June 06, 1950
NEW YORK TIMES, June 6, 1950
* Colleges not permitted to discriminate based on race
* McLaurin vs. Oklahoma State Regents & more
* United States Supreme Court decisions
The front page has a 3 column head: "SUPREME COURT RULINGS BAR SEGREGATION IN 2 COLLEGES, ALSO VOID BIAS IN RAIL DINERS" with subheads: "Bench Unanimous" "But It Stops Short of Saying if Separation of Races Is Illegal" "Precedents Are Set Up" and more.
The text begins: "In three unanimous opinions dealing with racial discrimination, the Supreme Court...struck down today barriers separating Negroes in railroad dining cars and in two educational institutions..." the latter being the G. W. McLaurin case with the Univ. of Oklahoma, and the Herman Marion Sweatt case at the Univ. of Texas Law School.
Lengthy reporting carries over to an inside page.
The complete 60 page issue, disbound, nice condition.
AI notes: On June 5, 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court issued several landmark decisions advancing civil rights and challenging segregation. In Sweatt v. Painter, the Court ruled that the University of Texas Law School could not deny admission to Heman Marion Sweatt, a Black applicant, and that the separate law school created for Black students was inherently unequal, signaling a weakening of the “separate but equal” doctrine. In McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, the Court held that the University of Oklahoma could not segregate George W. McLaurin within classrooms, libraries, or cafeterias, as these restrictions impeded his ability to learn and interact with fellow students, violating the Equal Protection Clause. Additionally, in Henderson v. United States, the Court struck down racially segregated dining-car facilities on interstate trains, affirming that enforced segregation violated the Interstate Commerce Act. Together, these decisions represented an important judicial move toward dismantling legalized racial segregation, laying critical groundwork for the Supreme Court’s later ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
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