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Harrison, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People et al., 1958 — 358 U.S. 807 · caselaw · US
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Harrison, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People et al.
358 U.S. 807·Supreme Court of the United States·1958
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Opinion
No. 127.
Harrison, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People et al.
Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Attorney General of Virginia, David J. Mays, Henry T. Wickham and J. Segar Gravatt for appellants. Robert L. Carter and Oliver W. Hill for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc., and Thur-good Marshall and Spotswood W. Robinson, III, for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., appellees. With them on a motion to affirm were Jack Greenberg and Constance Baker Motley.
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Probable jurisdiction noted.