Browder v. Gayle

(noun)

A case heard before a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on Montgomery and Alabama state bus segregation laws. The panel consisted of Middle District of Alabama Judge Frank Minis Johnson, Northern District of Alabama Judge Seybourn Harris Lynne, and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Rives. The District Court ruled 2-1, with Lynne dissenting, on June 5, 1956 that bus segregation was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment protections for equal treatment.

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Examples of Browder v. Gayle in the following topics:

  • Montgomery and Protests

    • Pressure increased across the country as the federal district court ruled that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional in Browder v.
    • Gayle - a case heard before a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
    • Browder, Susie McDonald, Mary Louise Smith and Jeanette Reese, Colvin was one of the five plaintiffs in the case.
    • The boycott officially ended December 20, 1956, after Mayor Gayle was handed official written notice by federal marshals, after 381 days.

  • The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

    • The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v.
    • Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
    • A critical Supreme Court decision of this phase of the Civil Rights Movement was the 1954 Brown v.
    • The NAACP proceeded with five cases challenging the school systems; these were later combined under what is known today as Brown v.