After a month hiatus, give or take a few days, I have returned with a new season and more episodes of the Untold Series!
For those who may be new here, this series, The Untold Stories of the Civil Rights Movement, is where I look at some of the most important civil rights cases. I quickly unpack their stories and why I believe they are significant. This series is an adaption to an ad hoc seminar I created while a student at Duke University School of Law.
I am kicking off season two with the case Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. (1964). Unlike previous cases discussed in this series, this one involves a white plaintiff, Moreton Rolleston Jr., who challenged the then newly enacted Civil Rights Act of 1964. Rolleston, a staunch segregationist and lawyer, owned the Heart of Atlanta Motel and he refused to serve black people. After the Civil Rights Act was passed, he filed an injunction claiming the law was unconstitutional. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and the court unanimously ruled against him. He continued his litigious ways, eventually suing media mogul Tyler Perry several times. Click the video above to discover why and to learn more about the case.
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Listen to Oral Arguments Here:https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/515
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This is my favorite episode!!! Listening to the court case really showed how confident he was that he would win…. and the fact that he is still bothering Tyler Perry is mind boggling!! Thank you for this content!
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Yes, he was a very arrogant and disturbed man.