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Segregation in the public schools opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the cases of Oliver Brown, et al., appellants, vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee county, Kans., et al. on appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Kansas Harry Briggs, Jr., et al., appellants, v. R. W. Elliott, et al. on appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina Dorothy E. Davis, et al., appellants, v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Va., et al. on appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Francis B. Gebhart, et al., petitioners, v. Ethel Louise Belton, et al. on writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware Spottswood Thomas Bolling, et al., petitioners, v. C. Melvin Sharpe, et al. on writ of certiorari to the United States Court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit.

House and Senate Documents: Segregation in public schools, opinion of Supreme Court of United States, 1954

Document 46 May 20, 1954 Memorandum Fr: Senate Majority Policy Committee

Records from the Presidential Library of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Eisenhower Administration and the Brown v. Board of Education decision, 1954-1955, the Supreme Court decision on Segregation report on the Supreme Court school segregation decision and on the civil rights history of the Republican Party, including quotes from Abraham Lincoln, 1954

Document 52 July 7, 1948 Memorandum with attachments To: James B. Forrestal Fr: Matthew J. Connelly

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of letter from Connelly informing Grant Reynolds that the president will be unable to meet with him and A. Philip Randolph to discuss issuance of an executive order ending military segregation and suggesting that he raise the matter with the secretary of defense instead, 1948

Document 39 April 9, 1948 Memorandum with attachments To: Clark M. Clifford Fr: Philleo Nash

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of memorandum asking whether proposed letters were ever mailed to the governors of Connecticut and Minnesota confirming segregation policy as to state National Guard units; answers to several similar inquiries are now required, 1948

Document 118 April 18, 1949 Letter with enclosure To: Charles Fahy Fr: Louis Johnson

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: concerning the Interpretation of the President’s Order establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services commentary interpreting the policy established by Executive Order 9981 as a policy of desegregation and not merely separate but equal treatment of African Americans in light of the ideals of democracy; the president’s concern for civil rights; and official U.S. public policy as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, statutes, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, and executive pronouncements, 1949

Document 59 ca. February 1949 Statement Fr: Attorney General [Tom C. Clark]

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: President Truman’s attempts to put the principles of racial justice into law: statement and Analysis by the Attorney General concerning the Proposed Civil Rights Act of 1949 -HR 4682, S. 1725: includes background discussion of Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, parts of Title 18 U.S. C, and detailed analysis of bill by title and section, 1949

Racial Affairs [1955-1956].

Presidential Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Eisenhower confidential subject file, Racial Affairs, 1955-1956

Document 54 July 17, 1948 Memorandum with attachments To: Clark [M.] Clifford Fr: James [B.] Forrestal

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of letter to the secretary of defense in which Beauharnais expresses his disgust over the policy of nonsegregation in the armed forces and his opinion that it goes against natural law? to force whites to associate so closely with African Americans against their wills, 1948