Title
Dismantling Jim Crow: challenges to racial segregation, 1935-1955
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Black History Bulletin
Publication Date
2004
Date Added
2022-05-16
Abstract
By the early 1950s, most municipal entities dropped their color bar, including the Baltimore City Fire Department, which appointed ten black firelighters in 1953. By 1956, after numerous failed attempts in the preceding years, the Baltimore City Council passed a fair employment practices law, creating a nine-member Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. During the 1940s, legal challenges to restrictive covenants continued, though lower courts habitually turned black plaintiffs away.\n The victory in the case Donald Murray v. the University of Maryland suggested that the upper-end, unique programs were the places to begin challenging inequity.
Keywords
Civil Rights
Disciplines
History
Recommended Citation
Terry, David Taft, "Dismantling Jim Crow: challenges to racial segregation, 1935-1955" (2004). College of Liberal Arts. 103.
https://research.paynecenter.org/morgan_cls/103