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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Henderson.
(No response.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sollins.
DELEGATE SOLLINS: Delegate Mitchell, with
regard to line six of your amendment, the use of the word
"state", do you mean by the use of the word "state",
local governments and the political subdivisions of the
state such as municipal corporations?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mitchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: That is correct. I can best
read to you the definition of state action, or the state,
what we mean by the state, in the language of the Supreme
Court, in 1880 in Virginia vs. Read , the Supreme Court
said, that a state may act through different agencies
either by its legislative, executive or its judicial
authorities.
In the Civil Rights cases, in 1883, while the
Supreme Court voided the application of that statute
to the instant facts because it said that the Federal
statute went to individuals in the state and it did not
mention state action, it made it clear, and I quote, "State