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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund records, 1915-1968

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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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