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- Davis's opposition to school integration and his conservative approach to legal interpretation made him a fierce critic of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, a case in which he had argued for the constitutionality of the separate but equal doctrine.
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In private practice in 1954, he took the case without accepting a fee. An intelligent and elegant advocate for segregation, he died a few months after the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. (Courtesy of Library of Congress)
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Argument, Argument: The Oral Argument Before The Supreme Court In Brown v. Board Of Education Of Topeka, 1952-55. Chelsea House Publishers 1969. Harbaugh, William H. Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life Of John W. Davis. Oxford University Press. 1973. Henderson, Cheryl Brown. Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy Of The Brown v. Board Of Education ...
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
- Briggs V.Elliott
- Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia
- Bolling v. Sharpe
- Belton V.Gebhart and Bulah V.Gebhart
(Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.) Linda Brown Linda Brown, who was born in 1943, became a part of civil rights history as a third grader in the public schools of Topeka, KS. When Linda was denied admission into a white elementary school, Linda's father, Oliver Brown, challenged Kansas's school segregation laws in the Supreme Cou...
(Briggs et al. v. Elliott et al., Members of Board of Trustees of School District #22) Harold R. Boulware Harold Boulware was born in 1913. In 1941, he became the chief counsel for the South Carolina NAACP and led the effort to gain equal pay for equal work for African-American teachers. Boulware gained fame as one of the lead attorneys for the pla...
(Davis et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia et al.) Robert L. Carter Born in 1917, Robert Carter, who served as an attorney for the plaintiffs in Briggs et al. v. Elliott et al., was of particular significance to the Brown v. Board of Education case because of his role in the Briggs case. Carter secured the pivotal involv...
(Bolling et al. v. Sharpe et al.) Sarah Bolling Sarah Bolling and two other adults filed suit, on behalf of five Black children, against C. Melvin Sharpe and 13 others, including members of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, the Superintendent of Schools, and the Principal of Sousa Junior High School, for denial of admission of the...
(Belton et al. v. Gebhart et al. andBulah et al. v. Gebhart et al.) Ethel Louise Belton Ethel Belton and six other adults filed suit on behalf of eight Black children against Francis B. Gebhart and 12 others (both individuals and state education agencies) in the case Belton v. Gebhart. The plaintiffs sued the state for denying to the children admis...
3 days ago · After 70 years, what is left to say about Brown v.Board of Education?. A lot, it turns out. As the anniversary nears this week for the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic May 17, 1954, decision that ...
1 day ago · Seventy years ago Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The decision rejected the “separate but equal ...
1 day ago · The post Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education’s Legacy in a New Era of Massive Resistance appeared first on Capital B News. View comments. Exactly 70 years after some of the greatest Black ...
