Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Title II--Public Accommodations: The most hotly disputed portion of the Act, this Title would open to the Negro many businesses catering to the public. Specifically included are restaurants, theaters, motels and hotels. Excluded are rooming houses which the owner occupies and which contain less than five rentable rooms; "bona...
>Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed school segregation and overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine that a prior court approved in 1896. Despite Southern outcries, said Craig, "Chief Justice Warren was quick to realize that the Constitution must forever remain a living, flexible document, able to be expanded...
"The root cause of controversial decisions is not the Supreme Court," Craig concluded, "but the times in which we live and the critical issues they have engendered. Our Constitution becomes meaningless if it is not a constitution as interpreted by the court. This is what is meant by justice under...
Last summer Pye launched a one-man crusade against sit-ins. Thundering that Georgia's antitrespass law had been "flouted, defied and violated," he ordered indictments prepared in 101 civil rights trespass cases, some dating back to 1961. Pye set bail as high as $20,000; where defendants had...
Today, he went on, this system is being endangered by Southern officials who refuse to respect rights guaranteed by the Constitution and by civil rights groups which "through despair or ignorance of the federal system seek to invoke the power of the federal government to enforce personal rights."