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Palmer v. Thompson, 403 U.S. 217 (1971), is a United States Supreme Court civil rights case which concerned the interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Following the Court of Appeals' affirmance of a District Court judgment invalidating enforced segregation on equal protection grounds, the city council of Jackson, Mississippi, desegregated its public recreational facilities, including its five public parks, except for their swimming pools.
Tara Claire Palmer-Tomkinson (23 December 1971 – 8 February 2017) [1] was an English socialite and television personality. [2] She appeared in several television shows, including the reality programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. She died from a perforated ulcer on 8 February 2017. [3]
Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is best known for his historical work on the radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class (1963). [ 1]
Feb 5, 2022 · John Clayton Riley II already faced charges linked to the December 2019 knife-point robbery of Palmer Thompson at his southwest Topeka workplace.
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Oct 9, 2007 · The Black citizens of Jackson, Mississippi sued the city for closing the public pools rather than integrating them. The Court of Appeals ruled that the city violated the equal protection clause by discriminating on the basis of race.
Palmer (plaintiff), an African American resident of Jackson, and several other African American residents brought suit against Thompson (defendant), a City of Jackson official, in federal district court challenging the closing of the pools and seeking to convince the city to reopen them on a non-segregated basis.