| Hamilton v. Alabama | |
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| Decided March 30, 1964 | |
| Full case name | Hamilton v. Alabama |
| Citations | 376 U.S. 650 (more) 84 S. Ct. 982; 11 L. Ed. 2d 979; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 1544 |
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| Per curiam | |
| Concurrence | Black |
| Dissent | Clark |
| Dissent | Harlan |
| Dissent | White |
Hamilton v. Alabama, 376 U.S. 650 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that an African American woman, Mary Hamilton, was entitled to the same courteous forms of address customarily reserved solely for whites in the Southern United States,[1] and that calling a black person by their first name in a formal context was "a form of racial discrimination".[2]
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