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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
Enoch Pratt Free Library v. Kerr, 1945
Missouri
Howard v. Saint Louis-San Francisco Ry., 1951
New York
American Jewish Congress v. Arabian American Oil Co., 1959
Ivory v. Edwards, 1951
Joseph v. Boyce, 1955
Ocasio v. Fox, 1952
Ohio
Turner v. Warner & Swasey Co., 1942
Pennsylvania
Dargon v. Yellow Cab Co. of Pittsburgh, 1952
Rhode Island
Hill v. International Bhd. of Boilermakers, 1955
South Carolina
Derrick v. Local 470, International Union of Operating Eng'rs, 1951-1952
Texas
Alexander v. Texas, 1954
Harvey v. Morgan, 1954
Syres v. Oil Workers Union Local 23, 1955
Virginia
Rolax v. Atlantic Coast Line R.R., 1950
Washington, D.C.
New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., 1938
Palmer v. Southern Ry., 1948
Taylor v. Brotherhood of Ry. & S.S. Clerks, 1951-1952
MISCELLANEOUS
Includes cases which do not fit into outlined categories. Of note are the cases involving the NAACP's right to do business in various states in the 1950s, particularly in Texas.
California
Acheson v. Murakami, 1949 (citizenship of Nisei)
Williams v. McClellan, 1953
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