State v. . Darnell

On 5 July, 1912, tbe board of aldermen of Winston, N. C., adopted an ordinance wbicb made it unlawful for any colored person to occupy as a residence any bouse upon any street or alley between two adjacent streets on wbicb a greater number of bouses are occupied as residences by white people than are occupied ais residences by colored people. Another section of tbe ordinance made a similar restriction against white people occupying as residences bouses on streets where there are more bouses occupied by colored residents than by whites. In 1913 tbe defendant William Darnell, a colored man,…