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Box 3

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Cypress v. Newport News General & Nonsectarian Hospital Association, 1966 - 1967

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents

Racially discriminatory admission policies against Black physicians and Black hospital staff along with racial segregation of hospital patients.

Dates: 1966 - 1967

Darwin v. Connecticut, 1968

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents

Improper evidence collection and interrogation in a second-degree murder conviction.

Dates: 1968

Death penalty case briefs argued at the United States Supreme Court: Aikens v. California, Furman v. Georgia, Jackson, Jr. v. Georgia, 1971 - 1972

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The court cases consist of original bound booklets and photocopies of Supreme Court, Appellate Court, and Court of Appeals cases. These are cases that Meltsner argued, assisted with, or appeared as amicus curiae, including cases while Meltsner was at the NAACP LDF. Included is Green v. New Kent County School Board regarding segregated schools, Furman v. Georgia capital punishment argument, and multiple cases covering segregation in southern hospitals in the 1960s.

Dates: 1971 - 1972