| McCready v. Byrd (195 Md. 131):
Ms. Esther McCready (second from left) with NAACP lawyers Thurgood
Marshall and Donald Murray in a 1950 photgraph from the Afro American.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Thurgood Marshall Memorial Collection) MSA SC 4565.
When Esther McCready won admission to the University of Maryland's School
of Nursing, her attorney, Donald Gaines Murray fulfilled an obligation.
Aside from the obvious responsibility to his client, Miss McCready, Murray
repaid a debt to the Baltimore community, to the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to his co-counsel Charles
H. Houston, and to himself. Fourteen years earlier, with the help of
the NAACP and Houston, Murray had established the legal foundations of
the case he later argued for McCready. Thus, in April 1950 things had come
full circle.
The opinion in the case, Esther McCready v. Harry C. Byrd, et al.,
handed down by the Court of Appeals in April 15, 1950 conveyed the influence
of the earlier Murray decision. This influence, the court held,
had effected not only on the state of Maryland, but also the decisions
of the U.S. Supreme Court. In cases of similar circumstance, decided between
1938 and 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled as the Maryland Appelate Court
had in 1936 -- when states do not meet the "equal" provision of Plessy
v. Ferguson (1896), the group at the disadvantage were to attend the
available facilities with the favored group. "We cannot subtract anything
from what the Supreme Court has said," wrote Justice Markell, "It would
be superfluous to add anything."
Source: http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1259/121/1844/html/0000.html
an Ebook version of only the trial and appellate court papers will be found at:
Ebook of McCready v. Byrd case files
Related Court Cases:
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Petition
Docket) Donald W. Stewart v. Byrd, et al., 1949, JOR 16, p. 72, case no. 13829 [MSA T549-13, 3/34/14/007].
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Court Papers)
Donald W. Stewart v. Byrd, et al., 1949, case no. 13829, box no. 766 [MSA T545-824, 3/33/04/033].
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Petition
Docket) Hiram L. Whittle v. Byrd, et al., 1949, JOR 16, p. 74, case no. 13830 [MSA T549-13, 3/34/14/007].
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Court Papers)
1949, Hiram L. Whittle v. Byrd, et al., case no. 13830, box no. 766 [MSA T545-824, 3/33/04/033].
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Petition
Docket) Lucille Williams v. Byrd, et al., 1949, JOR 16, p. 74, case no. 13831 [MSA T549-13, 3/34/14/007].
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Court Papers)
Lucille Williams v. Byrd, et al., 1949, case no. 13831, box no. 766 [MSA T545-824, 3/33/04/033].
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Petition
Docket) Richard Williams v. Byrd, et al., 1949, JOR 16, pp. 72, case no. 13832 [MSA T549-13, 3/34/14/007].
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Court Papers)
Richard Williams v. Byrd, et al., 1949, case no. 13832, box no. 766 [MSA T545-824, 3/33/04/033].
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