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RECREATIONAL FACILITIES
The fund undertook cases which specifically targeted segregated recreational facilities supported by public funds such as parks, beaches, swimming pools, golf courses, and tennis courts because these cases provided a clear and strong challenge to separate-but-equal precepts. Later, the fund brought cases of racial discrimination against privately owned and operated facilities.
Florida
Youngblood v. Snow, 1955
Georgia
Woods v. Murrah, 1956
Kansas
Bailey v. Smith, circa 1953
Louisiana
Detiege v. New Orleans City Park Improvement Ass'n, 1949-1951
Maryland
Boyer v. Garrett, 1948
Bryant v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 1950
Dawson v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Md., 1947-1956
Missouri
Shields v. City of Chillicothe, 1955
Williams v. City of Kansas City, 1951-1953
New Jersey
Scurry v. Sukup, 1951
Valle v. Stengel, 1949
South Carolina
Clark v. Flory, 1956
Commings v. City of Charleston, 1960-1961
Walker v. Shaw, 1961-1963
Tennessee
Easterly v. Dempster, 1952
Hart v. Knox County, 1948
Texas
Beal v. Holcombe, 1951
Byars v. White, 1955-1956
Fleming v. Garrison, 1955
Register v. Sandefer, 1949
Virginia
Department of Conservation & Dev. v. Tate, 1956
Washington, D.C.
Camp v. Recreational Bd. for the District of Columbia, 1951
TRANSPORTATION
The fund challenged various state laws requiring segregated travel in buses and trains. Suits contended that separate quarters were not equal and also raised jurisdictional questions. The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was eventually vested with the authority to revoke segregation when it impeded interstate commerce, and cases involving segregation on interstate trains and buses were thereafter heard by the ICC. Local transit authorities, mainly city bus and street-car systems, continued to be challenged in the courts.
Alabama
Jones v. Southeastern Greyhound Lines, 1953
California
Whitmore v. Southern Pac. Co., 1951
Florida
City of Jacksonville v. Watkins, 1946
Herndon v. Tallahassee Transit Co., 1957
Taylor v. Seaboard Air Line R.R., 1953
Georgia
Coke v. City of Atlanta, 1958-1960
Illinois
Johnson v. Illinois Cent. R.R., 1951
Ward v. Chicago & E. Ill. R.R., 1951
Maryland
Henderson v. United States, 1950
New York
Jackson v. Seaboard Air Line Ry., 1947
New York
Morris v. Greyhound Corp., 1954
NAACP v. Saint Louis-San Francisco Ry., 1953
Worthy v. Louisville & Nashville R.R., 1948
North Carolina
Keys v. Carolina Coach Co., 1952-1961
South Carolina
Brown v. South Carolina Elec. and Gas Co., 1956
Flemming v. South Carolina Elec. and Gas Co., 1954-1956
Tennessee
Evers v. Dwyer, 1958
Virginia
Boynton v. Virginia, 1959-1960
Brown v. Southern R.R. Co., 1947 (and other southern states)
Day v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp., 1948
Roberts v. Seaboard Air Line Ry., 1944
Virginia v. Carolina Coach Co., 1950
Virginia v. Simms, 1951
Virginia v. Wilson, 1953
Williams v. Carolina Coach Co., 1953
West Virginia
Brown v. County Court of Kanawha County, W.Va., circa 1959
Brown v. Hanna, 1945

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