In 1915 in Guinn v. United States, the Court declared Oklahoma ’ s ‘ grandfather clause ’ to be unconstitutional.

It also gained a Supreme Court ruling striking down Oklahoma's ‘ grandfather clause ’ that exempted most illiterate white voters from a law that disfranchised African-American citizens in Guinn v. United States ( 1915 ).

Asser may have been familiar with a work by St Jerome on the meaning of Hebrew names ( Jerome's given meaning for " Asser " was " blessed "), so it is possible that Asser's birth name was " Gwyn " ( or " Guinn "), which is Welsh for " blessed " ( or " blessedness ").

He also sided with the Supreme Court majority in the 1896 decision of Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ), which upheld the legality of segregation in the United States, though he did write for a unanimous court in Guinn v. United States ( 1915 ), which struck down many Southern states ' grandfather clauses that disenfranchised blacks.

White wrote for a unanimous Court in Guinn v. United States ( 1915 ), which invalidated the Oklahoma and Maryland grandfather clauses ( and, by extension, those in other Southern states ) as " repugnant to the Fifteenth Amendment and therefore null and void.

* Six non-violence activists in the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Bernice Fisher, James Russell Robinson, George Houser, James Farmer, Jr., Joe Guinn and Homer Jack — found the Committee on Racial Equality, which becomes Congress of Racial Equality.

Author-historian Jeff Guinn explains that it was the release of these very photos that put the outlaws on the media map and launched their legend: " John Dillinger had matinee-idol good looks and Pretty Boy Floyd had the best possible nickname, but the Joplin photos introduced new criminal superstars with the most titillating trademark of all — illicit sex.

Former Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn was born in Garland.

Kenny Guinn, former governor of Nevada, was raised here as a child.

In 1952, the magazine was acquired by Robert Guinn, its printer.

In 1958 Damon Knight was hired as editor, but within three issues Quinn sold the magazine to Robert Guinn at Galaxy Publishing.

Ifs new owner was Robert Guinn, of Galaxy Publishing.

The magazine published some well-received material and was profitable, but Guinn, the publisher and owner, decided in 1967 that it would be better to have Galaxy resume a monthly schedule ; both Worlds of Tomorrow and Galaxy were bimonthly at that time, while If was monthly.

Guinn v. United States, 238 U. S. 347 ( 1915 ), was an important United States Supreme Court decision that dealt with provisions of state constitutions that set qualifications for voters.

Kenneth Carroll " Kenny " Guinn ( August 24, 1936 – July 22, 2010 ) was an American businessman, educator and politician.

Guinn was born in Garland in Miller County near Texarkana in southwestern Arkansas.

Owen Guinn Smith ( May 2, 1920 – January 20, 2004 ) was an American athlete, the 1948 Olympic champion in the pole vault.

Miller was later succeeded by the late Kenny Guinn who proposed a tax restructuring during the 2003 legislative session that was met with opposition from anti-tax business groups and many anti-tax Republicans.

Governor Kenny Guinn, a moderate Republican, was term-limited.

In late 2004, the proposed bridge name honoring Mike O ' Callaghan and Pat Tillman was announced at a ceremony by the Governor of Nevada, Kenny Guinn, and the Governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano.

In 1969 Guinn sold Galaxy to Universal Publishing and Distribution Corporation ( UPD ) and Pohl resigned, to be replaced by Ejler Jakobsson.

It should be added, as noted by David Guinn,

Many believe Gibbons did this in order to undo a late term appointment to the position of Nevada's Gaming Control Board Chairman by his predecessor, Governor Kenny Guinn.

After several issues edited by Knight failed to reverse the circulation slide ( many sf magazines saw a drop in circulation after the 1957 launch of Sputnik, probably for a variety of reasons ), Quinn sold the title to Robert Guinn, publisher of Galaxy, where it continued with H. L.

It is described by its president, Clyde Guinn, as striving to provide the " best value under the sun ".

* Songs by Stephen Foster, with Leslie Guinn ( 1972 )

* Songs by Stephen Foster, Volume II with Leslie Guinn ( 1976 )

98a by Robert Schumann, with Leslie Guinn ( 1983 )

" In The St. James Opera Encyclopedia, edited by John Guinn and Les Stone.

* Kenny Guinn, 73, Governor of Nevada ( 1999 – 2007 ), died on July 22, 2010, after falling from a roof of his Las Vegas home and possibly following from a heart attack.

* 1915 – The U. S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.

* August 24 – Kenny Guinn, American politician ( d. 2010 )

** Guinn Williams, American actor ( b. 1899 )

* John E. Guinn

* John E. Guinn, current member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Jennings

Coffee City is home to Gage Guinn, who served as a City Councilman of Coffee City from May 2010 to December 2010.

" In 1915, in the case of Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court declared the grandfather clauses in the Maryland and Oklahoma constitutions to be repugnant to the Fifteenth Amendment and therefore null and void.

After the U. S. Supreme Court found such provisions unconstitutional in Guinn v. United States ( 1915 ), states were forced to stop using the grandfather clauses to provide exemption to literacy tests.

However, on June 8, 2001, Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn signed SB 372, at the time the country's most aggressive renewable portfolio standard.

While in the 20th century, the Supreme Court began to overturn state statutes that disfranchised African Americans, as in Guinn v. United States ( 1915 ), with Plessy, it upheld segregation that Southern states enforced in nearly every other sphere of public and private life.

The first being the landmark Supreme Court of the United States case Guinn v. United States in 1915.