HAMILTON
v.
ALABAMA

U.S. | 1964-03-30
No. 793
Mr. Justice Black concurs in reversal of the judgment of contempt for reasons discussed in In re Murchison, 349 U. S. 133, In re Oliver, 333 U. S. 257, and Thompson v. City of Louisville, 362 U. S. 199. Cf. Offutt v. United States, 348 U. S. 11., Mr. Justice Clark, Mr. Justice Harlan and Mr. Justice White are of the opinion that certiorari should be denied.
376 U.S. 650 Supreme Court of the United States (1964) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 11 L. Ed. 2d 979 · 84 S. Ct. 982 · 1964 U.S. LEXIS 1544 · SCDB 1963-093
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Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is reversed. Johnson v. Virginia, 373 U. S. 61.

Mr. Justice Black concurs in reversal of the judgment of contempt for reasons discussed in In re Murchison, 349 U. S. 133, In re Oliver, 333 U. S. 257, and Thompson v. City of Louisville, 362 U. S. 199. Cf. Offutt v. United States, 348 U. S. 11.

Mr. Justice Clark, Mr. Justice Harlan and Mr. Justice White are of the opinion that certiorari should be denied.

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  • Jones et ux. v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (U.S. 1968)
    …383 U. S. 131. A state court judge in Alabama convicted a Negro woman of contempt of court because she refused to answer him when he addressed her as “Mary,” although she had made the simple request to be called “Miss Hamilton.” Hamilton v. Alabama, 376 U. S. 650. That brief sampling of discriminatory practices, many of which continue today, stands almost as an annotation to what Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) wrote nearly a century earlier: “Of all the races and varieties of men which have suffered from t…
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    …n such states as South Carolina and Mississippi there was clearly evident a desire to keep the freedmen in a permanent position of tutelage, if not of peonage.” Other “relics of slavery” have recently come before this Court. In Hamilton v. Alabama, 376 U. S. 650, we reversed a judgment of contempt imposed on a Negro witness under these circumstances: “Cross examination by Solicitor Rayburn: “Q. What is your name, please? “A. Miss Mary Hamilton. “Q. Mary, I believe — you were arrested — who were you arreste…

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