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Legal Timeline
World War II & Post War Years: 1941–1945
1941: Executive Order 8802 prohibited racial discrimination in the national defense industry in response to the intended first March on Washington (Roosevelt)
1942: Executive Order 9066 designated much of the West Coast a "military area" and ordered more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to relocate and live in internment camps (Roosevelt)
1944: Smith v. Allwright (Texas) overturned the Democratic Party's use of all-white primaries in Texas and other states
1944: Korematsu v. United States (California) upheld the right to exclude Japanese Americans even though in a separate case, it found the relocation camps to be unconstitutional
1944: Pollock v. Williams (Florida) reversed a decision that upheld Florida's 1919 law facilitating debt peonage
1946: Morgan v. Virginia found a Virginia law that required the races be separated in all intrastate and interstate travel unconstitutional
1948: Shelley v. Kraemer (Missouri) held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive covenants on real estate that prevented "people of Negro or Mongolian race" from buying or living in certain neighborhoods
1948: Perez v. Sharp (California) was the first case in which a court invalidated a ban on interracial marriage when the California Supreme Court concluded that the ban violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
1948: Executive Order 9980 prohibited discrimination in civilian agencies and instituted fair employment practices (Truman)
1948: Executive Order 9981 abolished racial discrimination in the armed forces (Truman) |