Alexander and Dennis v. AVCO Corporation Brief for Appellees

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November 19, 1975

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  • Press Releases, Loose Pages. Argument on School Segregation Put Off, 1954. f372b8f0-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/93152d6d-f103-4463-a4c1-393fdfcb38ef/argument-on-school-segregation-put-off. Accessed April 06, 2025.

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JUDSON 6.8397 

ARGUMENT ON SCHOOL 
SEGREGATION PUT OFF November 22, 1954 

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- The U. S. Supreme Court today postponed 

the scheduled December 6 argument on the decrees implementing the 

May 17 decision outlawing segregation in public schools. 

The postponement was necessary, the Court announced, "in view 

of the absence of the full; Court," 

Justice Robert H. Tackson, who participated in the two previous 

Supreme Court hearings, died October 9 of a heart ailment. President 

Dwight D, Sisenhower on November 8 appointed New York Circuit Judge 

John Marshall Harlan to fill the vacancy but the Senate Judiciary 

Committee put off confirmation of his appointment until after Congress 

convenes in January, 1955, 

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