Box 5

Race and ethnicity use as reason for capital punishment/death penalty.

Black nurses were expelled from a cafeteria at the nursing training school because it was exclusive for whites.

Stinney denied fundamental due process in life sentencing.

Racial discrimination in choosing juries and school board members in Georgia.

Racial segregation at a privately owned restaurant.

Detainee requested time off sentence given previous time served.

Validity of military tribunal of court martial conviction for theft.

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.

Indigent prisoner and the payment of court fine via extra prison time.

This subseries contains Meltsner's credentials relating to his legal career, including bar admission certificates, professional legal organization credentials, and registration for the Board of Registration of Allied Health and Human Services Professionals of Massachussets.