520

(23) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20,1987,
(session 2), March 19,1987, (session 3), August 5,1987; Genna Rae McNeil,
Groundwork; Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights
(Philadelphia: 1983), 137-139; Mark V. Tushnet, The NAACP Legal Strategy against
Segregated Education, (Chapel Hill: 1987), 53-58; Sally Seawright, "Desegregation at
Maryland: the NAACP and the Murray Case in the 1930s," Maryland Historian, 1
(Spring 1970), 59-63; Edward J. Kuebler, The Desegregation of the University of
Maryland," Maryland Historical Magazine, 71 (spring 1976), 37-40. Actually, the
Hocutt case in North Carolina was technically the first case to be litigated in the
education campaign; this case however fell into the NAACP's lap after it had been
initiated, and the NAACP pursued it on the spur of the moment. The Murray case
was the first case of the planned campaign. Seawright, "Desegregation," 60.

(24) Seawright, "Desegregation," 60-65. Clarence Mitchell in a later oral history
interview insisted that the Black masses in Baltimore supported the case. Oral
History interview, Clarence Mitchell, Jr. MS. No OH 8154, McKeldin-Jackson Oral
History collection, Maryland Historical Society, 42.

(25) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20,1987.

(26) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20,1987,
(session 2), March 19,1987, (session 3), August 5,1987; Seawright,
"Desegregation," 61; "What Socialists Stand For; Platform of the Socialist Party of
Maryland," May 1934. The demand for state-supported higher education for
African Americans was one of the seven programmatic points that the Afro-
American printed on its editorial page for years; see, for example, Afro-American,
January 10, 1931, page 6.

(27) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20,1987;
Williams, "Marshall's Law," 17; Seawright, "Desegregation," 61-62.

(28) Seawright, "Desegregation," 62-3.

(29) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20,1987; Oral
History interview, Donald Murray,, MS. No. OH 8139, McKeldin-Jackson Oral
History collection, Maryland Historical Society; Seawright, 62-64.

(30) Seawright, "Desegregation," 65-66; Hayward Farrar, "See What theX/ro Says:
The Baltimore Afro-American, 1892-1950." Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1983,267-
9.

(31) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20,1987.

(32)Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20,1987.

(33) Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 4), August 12,1987; Williams,
"Marshall's Law," 17; Seawright, "Desegregation," 66-67; Kuebler, "Desegregation of
the University," 41-45.