Citing numerous examples of American jurisprudence spanning the early to mid-Fifties, this article illustrates that the era of Jim Crow was being disassembled brick-by-bigoted-brick:
"All across the South, the segregation wall is cracking. The hammer is being wielded by the courts... Coinciding with this judicial action is the spirit of the Negro in assaulting segregation. This spirit is exemplified by the racial struggle this year in Birmingham, Ala., long considered a stronghold of segregation."