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Mary Lucille Hamilton (October 13, 1935 – November 11, 2002) was an African American civil rights activist.Her case before the United States Supreme Court, Hamilton v. . Alabama, decided that an African American woman was entitled to the same courteous forms of address customarily reserved solely to whites in the Southern United States, [2] and that calling a black person by his or her first ...
Hamilton v. Alabama, 376 U.S. 650 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that an African American woman, Mary Hamilton, was entitled to the same courteous forms of address customarily reserved solely for whites in the Southern United States, [1] and that calling a black person by their first name in a formal context was "a form of racial discrimination".
April – Mary Lucille Hamilton, Field Secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality, refuses to answer a judge in Gadsden, Alabama, until she is addressed by the honorific "Miss". At the time, it was the southern custom to address white people by honorifics and people of color by their first names.
A 'most vicious' man: Who is Demetrius Frazier, set to be executed for woman's murder Pauline Brown: A beloved mother, friend and coworker. On the morning Brown's body was found, several relatives ...
Mary Ellen Matthews/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty. Tracy Morgan on "Saturday Night Live" in 2002. Morgan is one of several cast members who watches back their audition tape during the ...
Bunker Bean is a 1936 American black-and-white comedy film adapted from Harry Leon Wilson's novel Bunker Bean and the subsequent play adaptation, His Majesty Bunker Bean, by Lee Wilson Dodd.
Mary's possessions were gone! Most painful of all was the loss of her family photos, including those of her late son, Tommy, who died at 12 years old. The precious photographs of him had been a ...
In all versions of the song, Mary Hamilton is a personal attendant to the Queen of Scots, but precisely which queen is not specified. She becomes pregnant by the Queen's husband, the King of Scots, which results in the birth of a baby. Mary kills the infant – in some versions by casting it out to sea [1] or drowning, and in others by exposure ...