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The Manhattan Beach City Council passed ordinance 263, claiming eminent domain for a public park, in order to take properties owned by black residents and eliminate the African American resort, Bruce's Beach. [22] 1954 Vienna, Illinois: White residents burned down all the black homes of Vienna and nearby areas outside city limits.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama anti-miscegenation statute did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. According to the court, both races were treated equally, because whites and black people were punished in equal measure for breaking the law against interracial marriage and interracial sex. In State v.
The first Kansas City police officer to be convicted in the death of a Black man, Eric DeValkenaere had asked the Missouri Court of Appeals to overturn his convictions or grant him a new trial.
First African American male: Walter M. Farmer (1889) during the 1890s [2] [3] [4] First African American male (elected): Crittenden Clark in 1922 [2] [5] First African American male (Missouri Court of Appeals): Theodore McMillian (1949) in 1972 [3] First African American male (Missouri Supreme Court): Ronnie L. White (1983) in 1995
The Missouri Supreme Court subsequently declined to hear an appeal. DeValkenaere’s wife, Sarah DeValkenaere, took to social media earlier this week — as she had done often — urging followers ...
A 22-year-old Black woman on Oct. 7 escaped from the basement of a 39-year-old white male who allegedly sexually assaulted The post Missouri police arrest murderer who targeted Black women after ...
It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of African ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [1] [2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent , the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status ...
Court records show that Larry and Carmen Musgrave and former school principal Craig W. Smith Jr. were the subjects of a 2009 civil lawsuit in federal court. It alleged that Smith groomed a female ...