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...false statements" that might "impede military success." During World War II, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to use sedition charges to suppress black newspapers, claiming they undermined the war effort with reports of racial dissension and demands for civil rights. It took Chief Justice Earl Warren's Supreme Court on March 9, 1964, in The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, to finally declare unconstitutional the Sedition Act of the Adams Administration. Though the act had expired under Jefferson's Administration, the court's action buried that particular threat to free speech once...
...Earl H. Nemser, a New York lawyer representing Shleifer, said he was pleased that the judge had narrowed the case, dismissing charges that Shleifer made—rather than conspired to make—fraudulent claims...
Against this backdrop, on May 17, 1954 all nine Justices voted to outlaw de jure segregation in the public schools. Fifty-eight years after Plessy, almost to the day, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...
Despite her aversion to all things Princetonian, Chase heads south to New Jersey for a weekend-long economics conference and—at the behest of her mentor, Princeton Afro-American Studies Department chair Earl Stokes—agrees to linger in town to guest-lecture in his undergraduate class Monday morning. Nikki’s long weekend quickly turns nightmarish after Stokes dies in a mysterious blaze. As she hunts for Stokes’ murderer, Nikki finds that blacks and whites in Princeton are related by blood ties formed through a slew of adulterous trysts...
...going to talk about racism, a subject that I rarely discuss,” said James Earl Jones to an audience of over a hundred as he began the third annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture at Memorial Hall last night...