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1960s
1961: Holmes v. Danner began the desegregation of the University of Georgia.
1962: Meredith v. Fair won James Meredith admission to the University of
Mississippi
1963: LDF attorneys defended Martin Luther King, Jr. against contempt charges
for demonstrating without a permit in Birmingham, Alabama. See Letter from
Birmingham Jail.
1963: Watson v. City of Memphis overruled segregation of public parks.
1963: Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital overruled segregation of
hospitals that received federal construction funds.
1964: Willis v. Pickrick Restaurant required Lester Maddox to integrate his
restaurant; he closed it instead.
1964: McLaughlin v. Florida ruled against anti-miscegenation laws.
1965: Williams v. Wallace was a federal court order allowing a voting-rights
march in Alabama, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which had previously been
stopped twice by state police.
1965: Hamm v. City of Rock Hill overturned the all convictions of demonstrators
for participating in civil rights sit-ins.
1965: Abernathy v. Alabama and Thomas v. Mississippi reversed convictions of
Alabama and Mississippi Freedom Riders on the basis of Boynton v. Virginia.
1967: Quarles v. Philip Morris overturned the practice of "departmental
seniority", which had forced non-white workers to give up their seniority rights
when they transferred to better jobs in previously white-only departments.
1967: Green v. County School Board of New Kent County ruled that "freedom of
choice" was an insufficient response to segregated schools.
1968: Newman v. Piggie Park established that prevailing plaintiffs in civil
rights act cases are entitled to receive attorneys' fees from the losing
defendant.
1969: Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education ruled that a Mississippi
school district's foot-dragging with respect to desegregation violated the "all
deliberate speed" mandate of Brown v. Board of Education.
1969: Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham ruled against using the parade permitting
process as a means of suppressing First Amendment rights.
1969: Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham ruled that low-income public housing
tenants could not be summarily evicted.
1969: Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. required due process for the garnishment
of wages.
1969: Allen v. State Board of Elections guaranteed the right to a write-in vote.
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