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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee v. Macon County Bd. of Ed.

3:63-cv-00604 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1963

Closed Date: 1970

IntroductionThis case began on 1963 when a group of Black students and parents sought to desegregate the twenty public schools of Macon County, Alabama. At that time seventeen of the county’s schools were designated for Black children and three for white children. This was one of many such cases dealing with school desegregation on a school system-by-system basis. Soon after the case was filed, the court ordered the desegregation of Macon County’s schools. However, after interference from Gover…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Alabama v. Allen

64-03385 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 11, 1964

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Prior to this suit, three black individuals outside of a county courthouse in Selma, AL were encouraging other eligible black voters to register to vote on July 6, 1964. In response, Sheriff James Clark - famous for his support of segregation and resort to violence in opposing the civil rights movement - ordered the mass arrest of …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Atkins

61-02584 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1961

Closed Date: 1965

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. The Department of Justice field this suit in March 1961, challenging the racially discriminatory voter registration practices of the State of Alabama and the Dallas County Board of Registrars. The DOJ brought this suit under the Civil Rights Act, seeking injunctive relief. The case was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Sou…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
United States v. Wilkins

65-cr-11736 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 6, 1965

Closed Date: 1967

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Thousands of demonstrators walked from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965 protesting racial discrimination in Alabama and the persistent deprivation of the Alabama black population's right to vote. This historic march was made possible by an injunction from a federal court prohibiting state officials from interfering and compelling …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Penton

61-cv-01741 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1961

Closed Date: 1962

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. In May 1960, pursuant to allegations that Montgomery County engaged in racially discriminatory voter registration and voting practices, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a demand of records under the Civil Rights Act. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama subsequently ordered state officials to produce thos…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. McLeod (Dallas County)

1:63-03188 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 1963

Closed Date: 1967

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. This suit and United States v. Dallas County precipitated after a series of events in Selma, AL, briefly described below.The Dallas County Voters League ("League") sought to encourage local black citizens to register to vote. Early in 1963, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent volunteers to Selma to assist with …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Cartwright

63-cv-01957 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1963

Closed Date: 1964

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. The Department of Justice brought this suit on July 19, 1963 under the Civil Rights Act against the State of Alabama and the Board of Registrars in Elmore County, AL. The DOJ alleged the State and Board had engaged in racially discriminatory deprivation of the right to register to vote, and it accordingly sought injunctive relief t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Williams v. Wallace

2:65-cv-02181 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 8, 1965

Closed Date: 1965

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Despite the Civil Rights Act and the Department of Justice's myriad lawsuits against Alabama state officials for voter discrimination, racial discrimination among Alabama's voters persisted. Tensions in Selma thus also persisted throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. Ultimately, an injunction issued in this case would enable the Selm…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Liuzzo v. United States

5:79-cv-60014 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: July 5, 1979

Closed Date: May 27, 1983

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. On March 25, 1965, the famous Selma-to-Montgomery march concluded, bringing thousands of protesters to Montgomery seeking an end to racially discriminatory voting practices in Alabama. Viola Liuzzo wanted to support the protesters, and so she drove from her home in Michigan to Montgomery so that she could drive protesters back to S…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Dallas County v. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

64-cv-03388 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 13, 1964

Closed Date: 1965

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Prior to this suit, pro-segregation Judge Albert Hare of Alabama's state court for Dallas County, where Selma was located, issued an injunction on July 9, 1964 effectively making it unlawful to conduct large public protests or gather to discuss and plan civil rights activism. Specifically, the injunction made the following activiti…