Legal Opinion
Dawson v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore City
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 14, 1955No. Nos. 6903, 6904PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
These appeals were taken from orders of the District Court dismissing actions brought by Negro citizens to obtain declaratory judgments and injunctive relief against the enforcement of racial segregation in the enjoyment of public beaches and bathhouses maintained by the public authorities of the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore at or near that city. Notwithstanding prior decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States striking down the practice of segregation of the races in certain fields, the District Judge, as shown by his opinion, 123 F.Supp. 193, did not feel free to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Bolling v. SharpeSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Buchanan v. WarleySupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Robert M. Dawson, Jr. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, James C. Anderson, President, Milton Lonesome v. R. Brooke Maxwell, Chairman, Bernard I. Gonder, H. Lee Hoffman, Sr., J. Miles Lankford, J. Wilson Lord, Constituting the Commissioners of Forests and Parks of MarylandCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1955
- Bush v. Orleans Parish School BoardDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1956
- Turner v. RandolphDistrict Court, W.D. Tennessee · 1961