AFROAM 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Southern Manifesto, White Primaries

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Afro-American Studies
• Course: AFROAM 236
• Professor: Traci Parker

Document Summary

Made during eisenhower admiration but truman"s legal. Establishment of the naacp legal defense and education fund: purpose the organization of assault on education. 14th amendment used in fight restrictive covvenance used to keep. Smith v allwright (1944: which declared white primaries unconstitutional. Shelly v. kraemer (1948: the question is whether the actions in shelly required judicial enforcements of the convents required state action that violated the 14th amendment, which outlawed restrictive covenants. Henderson v. united states (1949): which ruled that segregated dining cars were unconstitutional. Unlawful under interstate commerce act and violates 14th amendment. Mcarthism at that time shifted attention from labour to education. Sipuel v. board of regents of the university of oklahoma: state court agreed, supreme court does not. Mclaurin v. oklahoma state regents for higher education (1950) Admit him but they segrgated him and kept him separate: sumpreme court. Opened separate law school for sweatt by himself in texas.