New York CORE member 'Miss Mary' Hamilton on the cover of Jet, April 1964

New York CORE member 'Miss Mary' Hamilton on the cover of Jet, April 1964

Harlem CORE members

This is the cover of the April 23, 1964 issue of Jet magazine, one of the only weekly national Black magazines at the time. It features New York CORE member Mary Hamilton and her Supreme Court case which has come to be known as the 'Miss Mary' case.
According to her friend and former room mate , Sheila Michaels:

"Mary Hamilton, served a month in jail, in Gadsden, Alabama, for contempt of court, when she refused to answer to "Mary", insisting upon being addressed with an honorific, as "Miss Hamilton". The case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled for her, in a landmark case, in 1964 (Ex parte Mary Hamilton. Ala. Sup. Ct., 7 Div. 621). It established for minorities rights to the same courtesies and honorifics as "whites".

Source - http://www.crmvet.org/mem/hamilton.htm

Jet Magazine

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Jet Magazine

April 23, 1964

Jet magazine

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