Box 5
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Johnson, Russell V, "Racial Restrictions: Private Covenants Discriminating Against Persons on Account of Race, Color, or Religion," presented to the Tulsa Lawyers Group., 12/17/1948
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_8_0001
Scope and Contents
Typewritten address by Russell V. Johnson largely defending private covenants forbidding the sale, lease, gift or grant of property to African Americans as not violating the latter's constitutional rights (esp. under the 5th, 13th, and 14th Amendments) , but noting some of the legal obstacles in enforcing such covenants by the then-Supreme Court and Chief Justice Fred Vinson's decision in Shelley v Kraemer (May 3, 1948)
Found in:
Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections
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William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray Collection
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Speeches
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Johnson, Russell V. "Racial Restrictions, Private Covenants Discriminating Against Persons on Account of Race, Color, or Religion" by Russell V. Johnson, presented to Tulsa Lawyers Group