2 N.J. Super. 255 - Seawell v. MacWithey’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Here the State itself has not offended. Quite the contrary. Under the very law permitting these public projects there is an explicit prohibition against discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin or ancestry. By this legislation the people of this State declared its policy that such public housing projects, financed in whole or in part with public funds, shall be equally and commonly available to all citizens, free of that discrimination condemned by the statute. Is this not as it should be? The public funds emanate from common sources, without distinction of color, race or creed. The duties and responsibilities of citizenship are discharged alike by the white and colored citizens, witness the effort made, the blood shed, and the lives sacrificed on common battle fields by citizens of all kinds of color, creed and race. Man's sense of justice, coupled with an enlightened understanding of our common humanity, would dictate that if there be no segregation in the field of civic duty and sacrifice, there be none in the realm of human dignity and equality.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 30 N.J. Super. 116 - Taylor v. Leonard

2. ““Municipality charged with management of public housing projects being erected with public funds furnished in part by state and in part by municipality could not exclude persons of colored race from three of projects and segregate them within a fourth in face of privileges and immunities clause, due process clause of Federal Constitution and provision in statute authorizing such public housing units and prohibiting discrimination because of race, creed or color, notwithstanding housing project made available to colored applicants was of like character and equal quality as other three projects. N.J.S.A. 55:14G-21; U.S.C.A. Const. Amend. 14, § 1.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 113 F. Supp. 210 - Vann v. Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority