Word: amicus
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Several hundred thousand federal employees, representing every segment of our population, work and live in the District of Columbia area. It is the established policy of the United States that its employees shall be hired, and shall work together, without regard to any differences of race or color." As amicus curiae (friend of the court), Brownell sided with the District corporation council in appealing for reversal of a lower court decision invalidating an old District of Columbia anti-segregation ordinance...