June 12, 1955
Describes how different states were approaching the Supreme Court’s decision to integrate public schools
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South Dogged By Tribunal’s Negro Ruling: Equal Facilities ‘Within-The-State’ Must Be Provided
September 3, 1950
Discusses problems in the south that arose from the Supreme Court decisions regarding separate but equal facilities and segregation.
Segregation In R.R. Dining Cars Outlawed: Supreme Court Says Violates Section Of Act; Vote Unanimous
June 5, 1950
Discusses the banning of legalized segregation by the Supreme Court due to the appeal from Elmer W. Henderson.
Final Blow Against Segregation Seen Negroes’ Aim: Court May Be Reluctant To Take Such Act, Negroes Expected To Seek All-Out Ruling In Future
June 11, 1950
Discusses the belief that the Supreme Court would not address the issue of segregation in an all-encompassing manner and also conveys other ideas about the legality of segregation.
Dixie Sees Destruction Of Its Schools If Segregation Banned; Truman Stand Told
March 16, 1950
Describes that specific southern states actively pursued avoiding integration in all areas of their communities through legal pathways and explains a brief that was critical of integration and maintained the importance of facilities being separate but equal.
Racial Segregation Cases Pending In U.S. Supreme Court
April 5, 1950
Describes the three civil rights cases that were pending the Supreme Court that were being presented by Heman Marion Sweatt, G.W. McLaurin, and Elmer W. Henderson.
Racial Zoning Laws In B’ham Under Attack
October 19, 1950
Explains that Birmingham’s racial zoning laws were being challenged by Black citizens in the area who were being supported by the NAACP and were represented by Thurgood Marshall
Judge Lashes NAACP For Depriving Rights
December 15, 1960
Describes that Supreme Court Judge Joseph A. Mallery believed the NAACP worked against judges who did not advocate for civil rights.
Editorial Grist: The Integration Showcase Of America
November 26, 1964
Describes that efforts to integrate schools in Washington DC seemingly failed and questions the success of desegregation.
Editorial Grist
September 18, 1958
Briefly describes the Supreme Court’s decision to desegregate immediately. (Also, mentions specific names, likely referring to Supreme Court Justices Earl Warren and Hugo Black, whose votes influenced the Brown v Board decision.)
Alabama Declines To Present Segregation Briefs
September 23, 1954
Explains that Alabama planned to defy the Supreme Court’s request to desegregate public schools.
Editorial Grist: Negro Gains Endangered
September 10, 1959
Describes the belief that segregation benefits the Black community financially and in the labor force.
Editorial Grist: School Mixing
June 3, 1965
Expresses the belief that forced integration in schools would not be beneficial and explains the idea that schools should be separated residentially, even if that results in inequality.
Editorial Grist: Negro Editor Speaks Out
June 11, 1959
Describes that Percy Green, a Black newspaper editor in Mississippi, believed that the 1954 decision from the Supreme Court was not benefitting Black Americans.
Supreme Court Grants Stay In Integration Order For State Jails
March 23, 1967
Describes the order for Alabama prisons to be integrated as the result of a Supreme Court ruling and explains the push back from Governor Lurleen Wallace and Attorney General Gallion.
Editorial Grist: Supreme Court Ruling On Segregation
May 20, 1954
Expresses rage toward the Supreme Court for enforcing desegregation in certain areas across the United States.
Integration Makes Slow Progress
February 13, 1964
Explains the perception that the implementation of laws regarding integration by the Supreme Court were unwanted by white Americans across the nation and that Congress needed to focus on other important issues.
Editorial Grist: Not Judicially Honest
January 29, 1948
Describes that Senator Eastland of Mississippi found it unnecessary for the Supreme Court to pass an anti-lynching law and that other people within the area had grown distrusting of the Supreme Court.