Racial Discrimination in Transportation

Class 01: Introduction

1. Syllabus (posted on Blackboard)
2. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), https://cite.case.law/us/163/537

Class 02: Interstate Travel

1. Nomination of J. Monroe Johnson to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner (1949), https://books.google.com/books?id=uyoTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA0 (through printed page 9)
2. Keys v. Carolina Coach Co., Interstate Commerce Commission, No. MC-C-1564, 64 M.C.C. 769 (1955), https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfMjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA405
3. NAACP v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., Interstate Commerce Commission, No. 297 I.C.C. 335 (1957), https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfMjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA408
4. T. Anthony Bell, The quietly defiant, unlikely fighter: Pfc. Sarah Keys and the fight for justice and humanity (2014), https://www.army.mil/article/120456/The_quietly_defiant__unlikely_fighter___Pfc__Sarah_Keys_and_the_fight_for_justice_and_humanity
5. Katie McCabe, Making History in a Segregated Washington: Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Her 45-year Fight for Justice (2011), https://members.badc.org/files/journal/JBADC2011.pdf (printed pages 67 - 97)
6. The Freedom Riders Reunite 50 Years Later, The Oprah Winfrey Show (2011), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBfuzj43ku4 (41 minutes) (Note: The PBS documentary referenced in this video is The Freedom Riders, PBS American Experience (2011), https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomriders)
7. Regulations Governing Discrimination in Operations of Interstate Motor Common Carriers of Passengers, Interstate Commerce Commission, 26 Federal Register 9166 (September 29, 1961), https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1961-09-29/pdf/FR-1961-09-29.pdf (PDF page 14)
8. United States v. City of Jackson, 318 F.2d 1 (5th Cir. 1963), https://cite.case.law/f2d/318/1/
9. The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, Smithsonian Channel (2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjAppLwDm6U (51 minutes)
10. Civil Rights Timeline, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/legal-events-timeline.html (current through 2014)
11. Supreme Court cases
    1. Students with last names A - C: Mitchell v. United States, 313 U.S. 80 (1941), https://cite.case.law/us/313/80/
    2. Students with last names D - K: Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946), https://cite.case.law/us/328/373/
    3. Students with last names M - Re: Henderson v. United States, 339 US. 816 (1950), https://cite.case.law/us/339/816/
    4. Students with last names Rh - Z: Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960), https://cite.case.law/us/364/454/