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New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Company

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New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Company
the Supreme Court of the United States
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New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., 303 U.S. 552 (1938), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, safeguarding a right to boycott and in the struggle by African Americans against discriminatory hiring practices.

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United States Supreme Court

303 U.S. 552

New Negro Alliance  v.  Sanitary Grocery Company

 Argued: March 2, 3, 1938. --- Decided: March 28, 1938

Messrs. Belford V. Lawson, Jr., and Thurman L. Dodson, both of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

Mr. A. Coulter Wells, of Washington, D.C., for respondent.

[Argument of Counsel from page 553 intentionally omitted]

Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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