• Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, 377 U.S. 218 (1964), is a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that...
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  • Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (Docket number: Civ. A. No. 1333; Case citation: 103 F. Supp. 337 (1952)) was one of the five cases...
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    Court. Ruling in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, the Court unanimously agreed in May 1964 that Prince Edward County's actions violated...
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  • of the county. But the public schools reopened after the Supreme Court overturned Brown II in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County,...
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    States Supreme Court decision Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County with a vote of 7-2 outlawed the allocation of public funds through tuition...
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    v. Aaron (1958) Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (1964) Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education (1969) Brown vs Board of Education...
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  • related to this article: Green v. County School Board of New Kent County Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, 391 U.S. 430 (1968), was an important...
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    Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (Edward Augustus; 2 November 1767 – 23 January 1820) was the fourth son and fifth child of King George III...
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  • Massive resistance (category School segregation in the United States)
    case of Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, which was initiated by students to protest poor conditions at R. R. Moton High School in Farmville...
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    Free Schools Association. The 1964 Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County Supreme Court decision ordered the reopening of Prince Edward County...
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  • all-white schools. Prince Edward County High School is known for the landmark cases Davis v. The Prince Edward County Board of Education and Griffin v. the...
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  • Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum...
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  • Lochner era (category History of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    striking down a state statute limiting the number of aliens that an employer could employ State Board of Control v Buckstegge, 158 Pac 837, 842 (1916): Arizona...
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  • John Segar Gravatt (category University of Virginia School of Law alumni)
    and Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, its companion case. Also in Griffin v. School Board of Prince Edward County. Gravatt was born...
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  • Encyclopedia of African American Folklore Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County Griggs v. Duke Power Co. Grind (musical) Guadalupe College...
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  • States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which held that "a child born in the United States, of parents...
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  • Collins Denny Jr. (category University of Virginia School of Law alumni)
    United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County. Denny hoped to argue the case for segregation in...
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  • private schools known as segregation academies. Other states followed until the practice was disallowed by Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County...
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    First Baptist Church (Farmville, Virginia) (category National Register of Historic Places in Prince Edward County, Virginia)
    Prince Edward County Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken...
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    Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that citizens of the United States...
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    Court of the United States ruled in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County that Virginia's tuition grants where the public schools had been...
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  • Perrow Commission (category History of racial segregation in the United States)
    the US Supreme Court overturned Prince Edward County's obstinacy in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County. Moreover, over Dixiecrat opposition...
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  • John W. Eggleston (category Washington and Lee University School of Law alumni)
    of funds for Prince Edward County's segregation academies while its public schools remained closed, Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County...
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  • Barbara Rose Johns (category People from Prince Edward County, Virginia)
    at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education opportunities at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia...
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  • Robert Young Button (category University of Virginia School of Law alumni)
    Act of 1965 as unconstitutional. His assistants lost judicial cases including NAACP v. Button (1963), Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County...
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    Robert L. Carter (category Howard University School of Law alumni)
    school segregation unconstitutional. He subsequently worked on Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, challenging a Virginia school board's...
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    ruling in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County that the county had to fund public education. In 1959, the county board of education...
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  • a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Warren Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren, from...
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  • Stanley Plan (category History of racial segregation in the United States)
    Board of Prince Edward County, with Brown v. Board of Education, and as part of its ruling in Brown ordered that the Prince Edward County public schools integrate...
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  • challenges to segregation in various Virginia schools. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County had been filed in 1951, and became a companion...
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