Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 259

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(CIVIL RIGHTS--SEGREGATION.) NAACP. Year Book of the Northern California Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Illustrated, 26 pages, small 8vo, original wrappers. [Oakland, 1919]
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Features the story of the Louisville Segregation Case which had been brought before the United States Supreme Court. Moorefield Storey, one of the founders of the NAACP, argued the case. Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917) was a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision addressing racial segregation in residential areas. The Court held that a Louisville Kentucky ordinance requiring residential segregation based on race violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Other articles include the decision of the Secretary of War to accept 700 colored officers from the Fort Des Moines training camp and the investigation of the East St. Louis riots. Very scarce; OCLC locating only three copies.