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  2. Houston riot of 1917 - Wikipedia

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    Trial started November 1, 1917, Fort Sam Houston. The Houston race riot of 1917, also known as the Camp Logan Mutiny, [1] [2] was a mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas. The incident occurred within a climate of overt hostility ...

  3. Charles Hamilton Houston - Wikipedia

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    Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants.

  4. Boynton v. Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. [1] The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites only". It held that racial segregation in public transportation was illegal because such segregation ...

  5. Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Pace v. Alabama (1883) Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [1] [2] Beginning in 2013, the decision was cited as precedent ...

  6. Virginia v. West Virginia (1911) - Wikipedia

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    Virginia v. West Virginia, 220 U.S. 1 (1911), is a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the state of West Virginia was bound by its constitution to pay one-third of the outstanding debt of the commonwealth of Virginia as of January 1, 1861. [1] In its ruling, the Supreme Court concluded that the geographic ...

  7. City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. - Wikipedia

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    XIV; Richmond, Va., City Code, § 12-156 (a) (1985) City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co., 488 U.S. 469 (1989), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the minority set-aside program of Richmond, Virginia, which gave preference to minority business enterprises (MBE) in the awarding of municipal contracts, was ...

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