Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Dawson

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 350 U.S. 877 (1955), was a per curiam order by the Supreme Court of the United States affirming an order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that enjoined racial segregation in public beaches and bathhouses.[1][2] The case arose from a challenge to segregation at Sandy Point State Park in Maryland.

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 7, 1955
Full case name	Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Robert M. Dawson, Jr., et al.
Citations	350 U.S. 877 (more) 76 S. Ct. 133; 100 L. Ed. 774; 1955 U.S. LEXIS 168
Case history
Prior	Lonesome v. Maxwell, 123 F. Supp. 193 (D. Md. 1954); reversed sub. nom., Dawson v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, 220 F.2d 386 (4th Cir. 1955)
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Harold H. Burton · Tom C. Clark Sherman Minton · John M. Harlan II
Case opinion
Per curiam

References

1. Dawson v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, 220 F.2d 386 (4th Cir. 1955).
2. Varat, J.D. et al. Constitutional Law Cases and Materials, Concise Thirteenth Edition. Foundation Press, New York, NY: 2009, p. 526