Civil Rights Movement

Amicus curiae brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court proposing a gradual approach to school integration in Florida.
Image: Amicus Curiae Brief Title Page, FAMU Digital Resource Center

"This thesis will deal with the problems of the development of segregation from the legal standpoint. It, therefore, will center around the development of legal means of controlling the Negro through separation of the races. Whenever possible a correlation between the methods used in Florida and the other southern states will be attempted. The main purpose of this correlation is to discover if Florida was in the van of the movement for the adoption of segregation laws"--Introduction.

Image: WEB DuBois 1918, Wikimedia Commons

Digitized copy available online via HathiTrust.

Image: Lillian Eugenia Smith NYWTS, Wikimedia Commons