National Archive Records: Report of the Solicitor General regarding racial discrimination and sit-in cases, from the files of assistant attorney general Burke Marshall, 1962-1964, 1962-1964
Tag Archives: Civil Rights Act of 1866
July 1962 Sit-In Cases–Avent et al. v. North Carolina (1 of 2) [1962-1963].
National Archive Records: Department of Justice memos regarding the sit-in cases that arose from the wave of sit-in demonstrations during the early 1960s, including the 1962 sit-in case, Avent v. North Carolina, from the files of assistant attorney general Burke Marshall, 1962-1963, 1962-1963
Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia: Brief for Appellees on Reargument
Supreme Court records on Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, 1953
Briggs v. Elliott: Brief for Appellees on Reargument
Supreme Court records on Briggs v. Elliott, 1953
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al.: Supplemental Brief for the United States on Reargument
Supreme Court records on Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al.: Appendix to the Supplemental Brief for the United States on Reargument
Supreme Court records on Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Supreme Court of the United States No. 44: Brief for Respondents
Supreme Court records on Sweatt v. Painter, 1949
Supreme Court of the United States No. 44: On a Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Supreme Court records on Sweatt v. Painter, 1949
Brief of the States of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
Supreme Court records on Sweatt v. Painter, 1949
Supreme Court of the United States No. 667: Motion and Brief of Amicus Curiae in Support of Petition for Certiorari
Supreme Court records on Sweatt v. Painter, 1948
Address of the colored citizens of Chicago to the Congress of the United States.
House and Senate Documents: Address of colored citizens of Chicago to Congress on civil rights, 1866
39 S. 61 (Ordered to be Printed Senate)
An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication, 1866
Resolutions adopted at a public meeting held in Washington City January 5, 1872, in favor of the passage of the bill (S. 99) supplementary to an act entitled “An act to protect all citizens of the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means for their vindication,” passed April 9, 1866.
House and Senate Documents: Resolutions for passage of bill supplementary to act to protect all citizens of United States in their civil rights, and to furnish means for their vindication, 1872
Passage of the Civil Rights Bill.
News article: on the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866
Veto of the Civil Rights Bill
News article: Andrew Johnson on why he vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866
The Constitutional Amendment
News article: Account of someone who was a spectator in the House of Representatives during the Civil Rights Act of 1866 vote, 1866
Senator Trumbull’s Review of the Veto
News article: Senator Trumbull’s response to the President’s explanation of his veto, 1866
The Obstructive President.
News article: on Andrew Johnson’s vetoing of popular bills, 1866
The Traitorous President.
News editorial on Andrew Johnson’s vetoing of popular bills, 1866
The Civil Rights Bill
News article: on the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866
An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication
Law Text: An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication, 1866
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th of January last, calling for information in relation to violations of the act entitled “An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights and furnish the means of their vindication,” such information as is in the possession of the departments on the subject, and the steps taken to enforce the law.
House and Senate Documents: Message of President on violations of civil rights bill, 1867
Message from the President of the United States, returning bill (S. no. 61) “to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication,” with his objections thereof.
House and Senate Documents: Veto message on bill to protect all persons in United States in their civil rights and furnish means of their vindication, 1866
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th of January last, calling for information in relation to violations of the act entitled “An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights and furnish the means of their vindication,” such information as is in the possession of the departments on the subject, and the steps taken to enforce the law.
House and Senate Documents: Message of President on violations of civil rights bill, 1867
The Civil Rights Bill
News article on the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866