| 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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| Case opinions | |
| 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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