Murray v. Pearson

(noun)

A 1936 Maryland Court of AppealsĀ decision the University of Maryland to immediately integrate its student population.

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Examples of Murray v. Pearson in the following topics:

  • Court Decisions and Civil Rights

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    • The nation's oldest black collegiate fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, took on the case of Pearson v.
    • Houston and Marshall used Pearson v.
    • Pearson, president of the university, to admit Murray to the law school.
  • Minorities and the New Deal

    • Another critical development that took place during the dominance of New Deal policies was the decision reached by the Maryland Court of Appeals in Murray v.
    • Pearson.
    • The nation's oldest black collegiate fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, took on the case of Pearson v.
    • Murray in June 1935.
    • Pearson, president of the university, to admit Murray to the law school.
  • References

    • ., Lundmark, V., Kiesler, S., Mukopadhyay, T., & Scherlis, W. (1998).
    • Murray, D., & Bevan, N. (1985, September 4-7).
  • Hypotheses about relations within/between groups

    • The logic is exactly the same as the Pearson Chi-square test of independence -- we can generate a "test statistic" that shows how far the 2 by 2 table departs from "independence" or "no association."
    • We've divided our large political donors in California initiative campaigns into two groups -- those that are affiliated with "workers" (e.g. unions, the Democratic party), and those that are not.
    • We've used the default of 10,000 random graphs to generate the sampling distribution for group differences.
    • A Pearson chi-square statistic is calculated (74.217).
  • Introduction to This "Textbook" (for Instructors and Scholars)

    • You can also send us a "pull request," if you've made a change you think would be beneficial to add to this textbook.
    • Adam Heidebrink, Andrew Charlton, Alex Dunn, Andre Mount, Ben Lloyd Pearson, Benjamin Zwickl, Brian Bennett, Brian Moseley, Chris Ogden, Christopher Edwards, Daniel Shanahan, Daniel Stevens, Dave Easley, David Huron, David Kulma, David MacDonald, The Marca Development Team, Jesse Stommel, Jill T.
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