Key civil rights cases, 1925-1965: Parmalee v. Morris – Michigan, 1925 (188 N.W. 330); State ex rel. Weaver v Bd of Trustees of Ohio State University – Ohio, 1933 (185 N.E. 196); Fletcher v Coney Island, Inc. – Ohio, 1956 (134 N.E.2d 371); McKibbin v. Corporation & Securities Commission – Michigan, 1963 (119 N.W.2d 557)
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| Segregated movie audience at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Illinois, 1944 (courtesy Department of Defense and Wikimedia Commons) “Whatever the immediate or distant future may bring in this virulent conflict over the rights of free men, unfortunately we have not yet reached the time in our legal history when reality and constitutional equality are one.” - Justice ___, in McKibbin ““It is not within the power of [the court] to compel
the people of one nationality or race to room with or live in such intimate
relation … with people of other races or nationalities, against their desires.
… The purely social relations of our citizens cannot be enforced by law; nor
were they intended to be regulated by our own laws or by the state and Federal
Constitutions.” -Justice Florence
Allen, in Weaver |
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