American Decades

Important Events in Law and Justice, 1960–1969

On June 26, the Supreme Court decides Hannah v. Slawson, which allows the Civil Rights Commission to keep secret the identities of persons submitting complaints, to protect them from retaliation.
In December, President John F. Kennedy announces his choice for attorney general, his brother Robert F. Kennedy.

On May 20, after a white mob attacks a racially-mixed group of bus riders known as "Freedom Riders," Attorney General Kennedy sends four hundred marshals and other law enforcement officials to Montgomery, Alabama, to restore order.
On May 29, the Supreme Court holds in Braunfeld v. Brown that Pennsylvania's Sunday Closing Law did not violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. The high court reaches the same conclusion in McGowan v. Maryland.
On June 5, the Supreme Court issues the Scales v. United States opinion...

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