James Hare (judge)
James Hare | |
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Judge of the Alabama Fourth Judicial Circuit | |
In office 1954–1969 | |
Appointed by | Gordon Persons |
Member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the Dallas County district | |
In office 1934–1940 | |
Personal details | |
Born | James Albert Hare Jr. May 17, 1906 China Burma India Theater |
James Albert Hare Jr. (May 17, 1906 – May 20, 1969) was a politician from the U.S. state of Alabama and a veteran of the United States Army during World War II. He served as an assistant state Attorney General, a county solicitor, a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, and an Alabama circuit court judge. He was an active defender of Jim Crow segregation as a judge.
Biography
James Albert Hare Jr. was born May 17, 1906, at Massillon in
Hare served six years as a member of the
His civic involvements included membership in the
Hare married Katheryn Terrell on September 12, 1942, in
Opposition to civil rights
During his tenure as a judge, Hare made efforts to thwart the civil rights movement in Alabama. In July of the Freedom Summer of 1964, Hare issued an injunction forbidding any gathering of three or more people under sponsorship of civil rights organizations. The injunction, signed by Judge Hare on July 9, 1964, made it illegal to even talk to more than two people at a time about civil rights or voter registration in Selma, even (and especially) during church services. Because it was an injunction, rather than a law, Hare could jail anyone who, in his sole opinion, violated it. As a result, mass meetings were halted, and for the remainder of 1964, there were no public civil rights movement events in Selma. Organization efforts were driven deep underground except for the bravest activists, and the movement was paralyzed.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Alabama. Legislature. Senate (1969). "House Joint Resolution (H. J. R.) 24. Mourning the Death of Judge James A. Hare of Selma, Alabama". Journal of the Senate of the State of Alabama: 221–222.
- ^ a b c d e f Zellner, Joe (April 14, 1965). "Dallas Judge Hare is Strict Disciplinarian". The Florence Times. p. 9, col. 1. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Judge Hare Dies at Age of 63". The Tuscaloosa News. Associated Press. May 21, 1969. p. 27, col. 3. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ISBN 9780817318116.
- ^ "Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement – History & Timeline, 1964 (July–December)". www.crmvet.org. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
Further reading
- General works
- Alabama. Legislature. House of Representatives (1969). "House Joint Resolution (H. J. R.) 24. Mourning the Death of Judge James A. Hare of Selma, Alabama". Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Alabama: 195–196, 418, 480.
- Alabama. Dept. of Archives and History (1955). "Alabama Official and Statistical Register". Brown Printing Company: 239–240, 287, +10.
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(help) - Alabama (1969). "Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama". 1. J. Boardman: 318–319.
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(help) - Hare, David Hugh; Massegee, R. R. (1993). The Hutch: Here a Hair, There a Haire, Everywhere a Hare/Harr: History and Genealogy of John and Peter Hare of Moore County, North Carolina. Historical Publications. pp. 613–617. ISBN 9781881825043.
- Civil Rights Movement
- Aiken, Charles S. (2003). Loyd, Bonnie; Schuyler, David (eds.). The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War. JHU Press. pp. 193–194. ISBN 9780801873096.
- Branch, Taylor (2007). Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963–65. Simon and Schuster. pp. 155, 391, 553–554, 561, 565–566, 577, 580, 587–588. ISBN 9781416558705.
- Davis, Townsend (1999). Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 110. ISBN 9780393245424.
- Greenhaw, Wayne (2011). Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Chicago Review Press. p. 162. ISBN 9781569768259.
- "Injunction of Three Judge Court Against Sheriff". Race Relations Law Reporter. 10 (1–2): 236, 240, 243. April 16, 1965.
- Lewis, David L. (1970). King: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. p. 264. ISBN 9780252006807.
- May, Gary (2013). Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy. Basic Books. pp. 9, 38–40, 42, 67, 189. ISBN 9780465018468.
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- Thornton, J. Mills (2002). Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. University of Alabama Press. pp. 15, 18, 388–391, 401, 402, 404, 405, 413, 424–426, 428, 431, 440, 441, 445, 450, 456, 457, 463, 464, 468, 471–473, 475, 477, 481, 489, 493, 498. ISBN 9780817311704.
- Vaughn, Wally G.; Davis, Mattie Campbell, eds. (2006). The Selma Campaign, 1963–1965: The Decisive Battle of the Civil Rights Movement. The Majority Press. pp. 217, 219–220. ISBN 9780912469447.
External links
- James Hare at Find a Grave
- James A. Hare papers, 1929–1969 at the University of Alabama
- Hartford, Bruce. "The Selma Injunction (July)". Civil Rights Movement Archive. Tougaloo College. Retrieved 26 April 2015.