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John Aubrey Davis, Sr. : ウィキペディア英語版 | John Aubrey Davis, Sr.
Dr. John Aubrey Davis, Sr. (May 10, 1912 - December 17, 2002) was an African-American political science professor and American Civil Rights activist who served as the head academic researcher on the historic Brown v. Board of Education case.〔http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/history/5-decision/timeline-1953.html〕 ==Civil rights work== Davis's career as a civil-rights activist began in 1933, when he formed the New Negro Alliance with Belford Lawson, Jr. and M. Franklin Thorne in response to the white-owned businesses in African-American neighborhoods that would fire and/or refuse to hire African-American workers. To protest this practice, the Alliance organized the "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" campaign in the height of the Great Depression and called for boycotts and picketing of these businesses. Most businesses, afraid of losing revenue in a shaky economic period, caved in to the protests. Others fought back and sought an injunction against the group. Initially, the lower courts sided with the businesses, but the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, which sided with The Alliance in 1938. Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall represented The Alliance in the case, which was known as New Negro Alliance vs. Sanitary Grocery Company Inc., forming a close lifelong friendship with Davis in the process.〔(African American Heritage Trail ). Cultural Tourism DC. Retrieved on 2009-02-02.〕〔Saxon, Wolfgang. (2002-12-21) (John A. Davis, 90, Advocate In Major Civil Rights Cases - New York Times ). Query.nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2009-02-02.〕 In 1953, Marshall appointed Davis to head the academic research task force for the historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case. Working with a team of more than 200 scholars that included Horace Mann Bond (father of future NAACP president Julian Bond), C. Vann Woodward, William Robert Ming, Jr., Alfred Kelly and John Hope Franklin, Davis compiled the factual evidence that was presented in Marshall's arguments against the "separate but equal" doctrine, proving that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited racial discrimination.〔〔Saxon, Wolfgang (2002-12-21) (John A. Davis, 90, Advocate In Major Civil Rights Cases - ''New York Times'' ). Query.nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2009-02-02.〕〔(Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress Exhibition) ). Loc.gov. Retrieved on 2009-02-02.〕 Following Davis's work on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, he was appointed to the New York State Commission on Discrimination by Gov. W. Averell Harriman in 1957.〔
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