[School Segregation Cases- Washington, D.C.]:

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OCTOBER TERM, 1952. NO. 413 SPOTTSWOOD THOMAS BOLLING, ET AL., PETITIONERS, V. C. MELVIN SHARPE, ET AL., RESPONDENTS... BRIEF OF AMERICAN VETERANS COMMITTEE, INC. (AVC) AMICUS CURIAE.

Washington, D.C. Press of Byron S. Adams, December 1, 1952. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title, as issued, and original staples. ii, 13, [1] pp. Near Fine.

The Supreme Court heard argument in December 1952, but held the cases over for reargument in the following term. This is the Amicus Curiae brief submitted by the American Veterans Committee for the first argument. Supporting the District of Columbia children seeking to integrate the Washington public schools, the Committee contends that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to be free from racial discrimination, that equality of education is impossible under a regime of racially segregated schools, that equality can be achieved only by abolition of compulsory segregation by race, and that "The people of Washington are ready for and will accept integration of their public schools."
The brief is signed in type by the Committee's National Counsel, Phineas Indritz, who was a distinguished civil rights and constitutional lawyer. Item #33220

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