Video of Barnette 75th Anniversary Symposium, Florida International University
…videos featuring the Barnett sisters and other videos pertaining to their case—click here; and links to my earlier Jackson List posts about Barnette—click here. Happy Barnette Day and Flag Day!…
…e no-compelled-flag-salute case, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. It includes this paragraph: Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular…
…in Wickard v. Filburn (1942) and West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943). John Costelloe also was a talented photographer. During his Department of Justice and Supreme Court clerkship years, he used his camera around Washington. Here are two samples of his work: a photograph of his desk in Jackson’s Supreme Court chambers, and a nighttime photograph of the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial. Costelloe also took portrait photo…