Report of the United States Commission on Civil RightsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 |
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... Supreme Court Justice ( chairman ) ; John Hannah , President of Michigan State University ; John S. Battle , former Governor of Virginia ; the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh , Presi- dent of the University of Notre Dame ; Robert G. Storey ...
... Supreme Court Justice ( chairman ) ; John Hannah , President of Michigan State University ; John S. Battle , former Governor of Virginia ; the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh , Presi- dent of the University of Notre Dame ; Robert G. Storey ...
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... Court were not to be elected at all but appointed by the Presi- dent . It was understood then as now that States ... Supreme Court has con- sidered the guarantee to every State of a republican form of government a political ques- tion ...
... Court were not to be elected at all but appointed by the Presi- dent . It was understood then as now that States ... Supreme Court has con- sidered the guarantee to every State of a republican form of government a political ques- tion ...
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... Supreme Court . Over the years the Court has given differing interpretations of the Constitution , and men may honestly differ about the wisdom of these interpretations . But the principles remain steadfast . The authors and signers of ...
... Supreme Court . Over the years the Court has given differing interpretations of the Constitution , and men may honestly differ about the wisdom of these interpretations . But the principles remain steadfast . The authors and signers of ...
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... Supreme Court , the Southern States proceeded to enact and to enforce strict segregation laws . " Interestingly , the adoption of so - called Jim Crow laws did not occur on a large scale until some years after the Reconstruction had ...
... Supreme Court , the Southern States proceeded to enact and to enforce strict segregation laws . " Interestingly , the adoption of so - called Jim Crow laws did not occur on a large scale until some years after the Reconstruction had ...
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... Supreme Court took a broader view of the Constitution . The commerce clause was expanded until the Court could say that it is as wide as the needs of the nation . Oddly , it was the commerce clause and not the Four- teenth Amendment ...
... Supreme Court took a broader view of the Constitution . The commerce clause was expanded until the Court could say that it is as wide as the needs of the nation . Oddly , it was the commerce clause and not the Four- teenth Amendment ...
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action Administration Advisory Committee Report agencies Alabama all-white American applicants areas Atlanta Barbour County Board of Education builders Bullock County Census Chicago citizens color Commission's Congress Constitution decision desegregation election enrollment equal opportunity equal protection Federal housing Fifteenth Amendment financing Fourteenth Amendment high school homes Housing Authority housing inequalities income integration laws legislation live loans Louisiana Lowndes County Macon County minority groups mortgage Nashville Conference Negro families Negro population Negro school Negro teachers neighborhoods nonwhites North Carolina officials open occupancy patterns percent poll tax problems projects public housing public schools pupils qualified Race Rel racial segregation Real estate brokers Regional Hearings registrars residential residents right to vote School Board school districts School segregation slum South Stat statistics substandard Supp supra note Supreme Court Texas tion urban renewal Virginia voters Washington Hearing white schools
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Página 328 - ... (2) study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of laws under the Constitution...
Página 3 - ... whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.
Página 12 - But in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
Página 11 - Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.
Página 7 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God...
Página 4 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly, ought to be free ; and that all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to the community, have the right of suffrage...
Página 62 - On and after the first day of January, AD, 1892, every elector shall, in addition to the foregoing qualifications, be able to read any section of the constitution of this State; or he shall be able to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof.
Página 9 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of all life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Página 68 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
Página x - Commission to— (1) investigate allegations in writing under oath or affirmation that certain citizens of the United States are being deprived of their right to vote and have that vote counted by reason of their color, race, religion, or national origin...