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| ELECTIONS | |||||||||||||
| The fund took cases to gain or protect voting rights in general elections and primaries. Other cases concerned electoral district apportionment and strictures on Negro candidates and bloc voting. | |||||||||||||
| Alabama | |||||||||||||
| Davis v. Schnell, 1949 | |||||||||||||
| Gray v. Main, 1961-1967 | |||||||||||||
| Newman v. Searcy, 1949 | |||||||||||||
| Arkansas | |||||||||||||
| Gatlin v. McDaniel, 1950 | |||||||||||||
| Georgia | |||||||||||||
| Franklin v. Harber, 1949 | |||||||||||||
| Smith v. Baldwin, 1948 | |||||||||||||
| Louisiana | |||||||||||||
| Byrd v. Brice, 1952 | |||||||||||||
| Scott v. Beard, 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Ventre v. Ryder, 1959 | |||||||||||||
| Mississippi | |||||||||||||
| Darby v. Daniel, 1957 | |||||||||||||
| New Mexico | |||||||||||||
| Trujillo v. Garley, undated | |||||||||||||
| North Carolina | |||||||||||||
| Elliott v. Cumberland County Bd. of Elections, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| Lassiter v. Northampton County Bd. of Elections, 1957 | |||||||||||||
| Trafton v. Burgges, 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Oklahoma | |||||||||||||
| Hodge v. Tulsa County Election Bd., 1948 | |||||||||||||
| South Carolina | |||||||||||||
| Elmore v. Rice, 1947 | |||||||||||||
| Texas | |||||||||||||
| Perry v. Cyphers, 1951 | |||||||||||||
| Virginia | |||||||||||||
| Kelsey v. Moore, 1946 | |||||||||||||
| HOUSING AND REAL PROPERTY | |||||||||||||
| The fund challenged racial zoning laws and restrictive covenants which excluded ethnic groups, and segregation or discrimination in federal housing and other public housing aid programs. Other litigation involved individuals who resorted to the courts to protect private property rights, or cases brought against individuals who obstructed integration of residential neighborhoods. | |||||||||||||
| Alabama | |||||||||||||
| Barnes v. City of Gadsden, Ala., 1953-1959 | |||||||||||||
| City of Birmingham v. Monk, 1950 | |||||||||||||
| Morris v. Housing Auth., 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Tate v. City of Eufaula, undated | |||||||||||||
| Watts v. Housing Auth., 1952-1956 | |||||||||||||
| California | |||||||||||||
| Amer v. Superior Court of Calif., 1947 | |||||||||||||
| Banks v. Housing Auth. of the City and County of San Francisco, 1952-1953 | |||||||||||||
| Barrows v. Jackson, 1950-1952 | |||||||||||||
| Burkman v. Liddy, 1942 | |||||||||||||
| Franklin v. Housing Auth. of the City of Sacramento, 1952 | |||||||||||||
| Ming v. Horgan, 1954-1957 | |||||||||||||
| Connecticut | |||||||||||||
| Harris v. Clinton, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| Georgia | |||||||||||||
| Cohen v. Public Hous. Admin., 1952-1956 | |||||||||||||
| Heyward v. Public Hous. Admin., 1954-1956 | |||||||||||||
| Illinois | |||||||||||||
| Clark v. Sandusky, 1951 | |||||||||||||
| Illinois v. Leighton, 1951 | |||||||||||||
| Jenkins v. Chicago Hous. Auth., 1953 | |||||||||||||
| McCormick v. Green, undated | |||||||||||||
| Indiana | |||||||||||||
| Woodbridge v. Housing Auth., 1952-1953 | |||||||||||||
| Kentucky | |||||||||||||
| Buchanan v. Warley; Harris v. Louisville, 1915-1929 | |||||||||||||
| Eleby v. Louisville Municipal Hous. Comm'n, 1956-1957 | |||||||||||||
| Louisiana | |||||||||||||
| Stewart v. Clark Terrace Unit One, Inc., 1952-1955 | |||||||||||||
| Wilson v. Bossier Constr. Co., 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Maryland | |||||||||||||
| Kennard v. McKamer Realty Co., undated | |||||||||||||
| Michigan | |||||||||||||
| Askew v. Benton Harbor Hous. Comm'n, 1951-1956 | |||||||||||||
| Flowers v. National Hous. Auth., 1943 | |||||||||||||
| Hill v. Hamtramck Hous. Comm'n, 1942-1947 | |||||||||||||
| Lewis v. City of Detroit, 1942-1954 | |||||||||||||
| Malicke v. Milan, 1948 | |||||||||||||
| Mrsa v. Reynolds, 1946 | |||||||||||||
| Phillips v. Naff, 1952 | |||||||||||||
| Missouri | |||||||||||||
| Davis v. Saint Louis Hous. Auth., 1953-1956 | |||||||||||||
| Venable v. City of Creve Coeur; City of Creve Coeur v. Deilman, 1956 | |||||||||||||
| Weiss v. Leaon, 1949-1950 | |||||||||||||
| New Jersey | |||||||||||||
| Crawford v. Maher, 1952 | |||||||||||||
| Miller v. McComb, 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Seawell v. MacWithey, 1948 | |||||||||||||
| Taylor v. Leonard, 1954 | |||||||||||||
| New York | |||||||||||||
| Commission against Discrimination v. Pelham Hall Apts., Inc., 1957-1958 | |||||||||||||
| Dorsey v. Stuyvesant Town Corp., 1947-1948 | |||||||||||||
| In re Griffin v. City of Schenectady, 1950 | |||||||||||||
| Hunter v. City of New York, 1952 | |||||||||||||
| Kemp v. Rubin, 1946 | |||||||||||||
| Mid-Island Properties v. Johnson, 1953 | |||||||||||||
| United States v. Mortgage Conference, 1948 | |||||||||||||
| Ohio | |||||||||||||
| Trustees of Monroe Ave. Church v. Perkins, 1947 | |||||||||||||
| Vann v. Toledo Metro. Hous. Auth., 1953 | |||||||||||||
| Ward v. Columbus Metro. Hous. Auth., 1954-1955 | |||||||||||||
| Oregon | |||||||||||||
| Foeller v. Housing Auth. of Portland, 1953 | |||||||||||||
| Namba v. McCourt, 1948 | |||||||||||||
| Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||
| Johnson v. Levitt & Sons, Inc., 1955 | |||||||||||||
| Pearson v. Olney Gardens, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| Unger v. Dewalt, 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Yoshida v. Gelbert Improvement Co., 1946 | |||||||||||||
| Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Hundley v. Gorewitz, 1942 | |||||||||||||
| Shanks Village Residents Ass'n v. Cole, 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Taylor v. Blandford, 1945 | |||||||||||||
| LABOR | |||||||||||||
| Depression era cases often concerned forced labor or peonage. Thereafter, the fund worked to define fair employment practices by challenging discrimination in government employment or by companies receiving government contracts, exclusion of African Americans from professional associations or union membership, especially when unions negotiated contracts and were otherwise consulted on labor practices. | |||||||||||||
| Alabama | |||||||||||||
| Davis v. Arn, 1950-1953 | |||||||||||||
| California | |||||||||||||
| Bacon v. Local 9, Bricklayers and Tile Setters Union, 1949 | |||||||||||||
| Connecticut | |||||||||||||
| Commission on Civil Rights ex rel. Tilley v. International Bhd. of Elec. Workers Local 35; Commission on Civil Rights ex rel. Stewart v. International Bhd. of Elec. Workers Local 35, 1951 | |||||||||||||
| International Bhd. of Elec. Workers Local 35 v. Commission on Civil Rights, 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Illinois | |||||||||||||
| Howard v. Local 74, Wood, Wire, & Metal Lathers Int'l Union, 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Young v. Chicago Hous. Auth., 1952 | |||||||||||||
| Kansas | |||||||||||||
| Betts v. Easley, 1946 | |||||||||||||
| Kentucky | |||||||||||||
| Benjamin v. Louisville & Nashville R.R., circa 1944 | |||||||||||||
| Maryland | |||||||||||||
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