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Private agreements to exclude persons of designated race or color from the use or occupancy of real estate for residential purposes do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment; but it is violative of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for state courts to enforce them. Corrigan v. Buckley, 271 U. S. 323, distinguished. Pp. 334 U. S. 8-23.
(b) The actions of state courts and judicial officers in their official capacities are actions of the states within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 334 U. S. 14-18.
No. 72. The Supreme Court of Missouri reversed a judgment of a state trial court denying enforcement of a private agreement restricting the use or occupancy of certain real estate to persons of the Caucasian race. 355 Mo. 814,198 S.W.2d 679. This Court granted certiorari. 331 U.S. 803. Reversed, p. 334 U. S. 23.
Courts of Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia have also declared similar statutes invalid as being in contravention of the Fourteenth Amendment. Glover v. Atlanta, 148 Ga. 285, 96 S.E. 562 (1918); Jackson v. State, 132 Md. 311, 103 A. 910 (1918); Clinard v. Winston-Salem, 217 N.C. 119, 6 S.E.2d 867 (1940); Allen v. Oklahoma City, 175 Okla. 421, 52 P.2d 1054 (1936); Liberty Annex Corp. v. Dallas, 289 S.W. 1067 (Tex.Civ.App. 1927); Irvine v. Clifton Forge, 124 Va. 781, 97 S.E. 310 (1918).
Neal v. Delaware, 103 U. S. 370, 103 U. S. 397 (1881); Scott v. McNeal, 154 U. S. 34, 154 U. S. 45 (1894); Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. Co. v. Chicago, 166 U. S. 226, 166 U. S. 233-235 (1897); Hovey v. Elliott, 167 U. S. 409, 167 U. S. 417-418 (1897); Carter v. Texas, 177 U. S. 442, 177 U. S. 447 (1900); Martin v. Texas, 200 U. S. 316, 200 U. S. 319 (1906); Raymond v. Chicago Union Traction Co., 207 U. S. 20, 207 U. S. 35-36 (1907); Home Telephone and Telegraph Co. v. Los Angeles, 227 U. S. 278, 227 U. S. 286-287 (1913); Prudential Insurance Co. v. Cheek, 259 U. S. 530, 259 U. S. 548 (1922); American Railway Express Co. v. Kentucky, 273 U. S. 269, 273 U. S. 274 (1927); Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U. S. 103, 294 U. S. 112-113 (1935); Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U. S. 32, 311 U. S. 41 (1940).
Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U. S. 278 (1936); Chambers v. Florida, 309 U. S. 227 (1940); Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 322 U. S. 143 (1944); Lee v. Mississippi, 332 U. S. 742 (1948).

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