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ABA. See American Bar Association (ABA) Abrams, Creighton W., 166 Accomplice testimony, 120–21 Adams, Sherman, 40, 41, 89, 93–94, 96 Admiralty law, 121–23 Affirmative action, xi, 134, 220, 282, 319– 30. See also Employment discrimination African Americans: and bootleg whiskey possession, 118–20; as clients of Wisdom & Stone, 23, 23n37, 41; as Democratic political candidates in Louisiana , 213–14; disenfranchisement of, 44, 48, 125–30, 141–42, 272–302; employment discrimination against, 130–38, 134–35n79, 269n82, 318–30; exclusion of, from juries, 112–17; Ku Klux Klan violence against, 288–89; lynchings of, 132; and Mardi Gras, 13–14; military service by, 147; and pool closures, 232–36; and public recreational facilities, 231–36; and rape case, 112–17, 138–40; and Republican Party, 44, 48, 83–88; and segregation of public accommodations, 241–43, 241–42n141; and segregation of public transportation, 238–41, 254. See also Brown v. Board of Education; Desegregation ; Racial prejudice and discrimination ; Voting rights Agriculture Department, U.S., 36 Ainsworth, Robert A., Jr.: appointment of, to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 224, 358; on Ku Klux Klan, 289; on obscene materials, 310; and partition of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 358; and Poindexter v. Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission , 196; on public transportation desegregation cases, 240; and U.S. v. Jefferson County, 223n72 Alabama: at-large municipal elections in, 299–301; Brown v. Board of Education implementation in, 206–12, 215–27, 246–53; civil rights movement in, 259– 60, 284; demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, 259–60; employment discrimination in, 134–35n79; expulsions and suspensions of student demonstrators in Birmingham, 259–60; public recreational facilities in, 236; racial gerrymandering in, 125–30, 273; segregation of buses in Birmingham, 254; voting rights in, 125–30, 273, 284, 287–88, 299–301 Alcohol cases, 118–20, 308–9 Alexander, Lamar, 373–74 Allen, O. K., 45–46 Allen, Violet, 108–9 Allen v. Republican State Central Committee of Louisiana, 52n26 Index 382 Index Allgood, Clarence W., 260 All Writs Act, 247 Alsop, Joseph, 59–60 American Bar Association (ABA), 97, 262n55, 350, 352, 376, 376n19 American Bar Foundation, 350 Anderson, Dillon, 27, 89, 90–91 Anderson, Dupuy, 213 Anderson v. Martin, 213–15, 324 Appellate courts. See specific courts, such as Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Armco Steel Corp., 130–31 Armstrong, Dwight, 247–48 Armstrong v. Board of Education of the City of Birmingham, 246–53, 248n5, 253n16, 255, 260 Art theft, 315–17 Asbestos litigation, 145, 145n116 Association, freedom of, 303 At-large municipal elections, 299–301 Bagur v. C.I.R., 124n46 Baker & Botts, 90 Bakke case, 329–30 Barnett, Robert B., 372 Barnett, Ross: compared with Cameron, 270; contempt charges against, 163n64, 164–65, 165n69, 169–78, 176n102, 350; and defiance against court-ordered desegregation of University of Mississippi, 158–71; family of, 158; legal and political career of, 158 Barrett, St. John, 160 Bazelon, David, 304n1 Bell, Griffin B.: appointment of, to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 136, 256–57, 264–65; and Armstrong v. Board of Education of the City of Birmingham, 250; and assignment of judges to racial cases and court-packing controversy, 256–57, 262, 264–66, 268; and Brown v. Board of Education implementation, 250, 253n16; and contempt charges against Barnett, 172, 174–76; on desegregation of University of Mississippi, 160–62, 165n69; and dissension within Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 255, 262–65, 262–63n55, 268; legal career of, 136; and Local 189 case, 136–38, 235; and Palmer v. Thompson, 235–36; and partition of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 346–48, 351, 353, 365; personality of, 346; as secretary of Judicial Council (1963), 264; senior status for, 362; as U.S. attorney general, 362, 365; and U.S. v. Jefferson County, 223n72, 225n82; Wisdom’s conflicts with, 136– 38, 235, 346 Bell, William Alexander, 4n5 Belli v. Orlando Daily Newspapers, Inc., 118n26 Belton, Acie, 213 Benjamin, Judah P., 5, 5n7, 6 Bennett v. Labat, 117n20 Berry, Louis, 222 Birmingham Board of Education case, 246–53, 255 Black, Hugo L., 142n105, 157, 343, 345 Black Code (Code Noir), 6, 278, 6, 278 Blackmun, Harry, 329–30 Blanchard, Newton C., 47 Block v. Compagnie National Air France, 278–79n24 Boman v. Birmingham Transit Company, 254, 254n18 Bootle, William A., 240, 332, 333 Bootleg whiskey cases, 118–20 Borah, Wayne G., 94–95, 97, 186 Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corp., 145, 145n116 Bossier Parish School Board v. Lemon, 193–94, 198 Boston Club...
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