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Box LGL.04

 Container

Contains 81 Results:

Racial Prejudice, 1917-1960s

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Stories documented in the racial prejudice files describe the way Jim Crow racial segregation was enforced, imposed, and fought in specific instances and varying contexts. Types of documents include photographs, legal documents, reports, letters, press releases, publications, draft articles, clippings, transcripts and writings. The majority of material in this group of folders dates from the 1920s through the 1940s.

Dates: 1917-1960s

Racial Prejudice - Buses, 1920s-1940s

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

See Legal-sized folder for notes listing cases of people ejected from buses, arrested, or assaulted on buses between 1941-1945. Also includes articles about racial segregation on trains.

Dates: 1920s-1940s

Racial Prejudice - Buses - Irene Morgan vs. Commonwealth of Virginia, 1944-1946

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes a memo to AFRO editorial from Thurgood Marshall and NAACP legal brief.

Dates: 1944-1946

Racial Prejudice - U.S. - West Virginia, 1928-1931

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Documentation regarding the case of Anderson H Brown, et als. vs. The Board of Education of Charleston Independent School District

Dates: 1928-1931

Rhetta, Barnette Milton, Jr. (Dr. and Mrs.)

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Coverage of the indictments of Dr. Barnette Milton Rhetta Jr. for performing abortion services in Baltimore.