BARROWS v. JACKSON.

No. 517.

346 U.S. 249 (1953)

BARROWS ET AL. v. JACKSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 15, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Wallace McKnight argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief were John C. Miles and Charles Leland Bagley.

Loren Miller argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Thurgood Marshall and Franklin H. Williams.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by John W. Preston for Affiliated Neighbors et al.; and Walter H. Pollmann, Gerald L. Seegers and Paul M. Gerwitz, Jr. for O'Fallon Park Protective Association et al.

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by A. L. Wirin for the American Civil Liberties Union (Southern California Branch); by Fred Okrand for the Greater Los Angeles C. I. O. Council, Saburo Kido for the Japanese American Citizens' League, and David Ziskind for the Los Angeles Urban League et al.; by Phineas Indritz for the American Veterans Committee, Inc.; by Arnold Forster, Harry Graham Balter, Mr. Ziskind and Theodore Leskes for the American Jewish Committee et al.; and by Irving Kane, Lewis H. Weinstein, Will Maslow, Leo Pfeffer and Joseph B. Robison for the National Community Relations Advisory Council.


MR. JUSTICE MINTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

This Court held in Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1, that racial restrictive covenants could not be enforced in equity against Negro purchasers because such enforcement would constitute state action denying equal protection of the laws to the Negroes, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. The question we now have is: Can such a restrictive...

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