Hamilton v. Alabama (1964)

Hamilton v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 30, 1964
Full case name	Hamilton v. Alabama
Citations	376 U.S. 650 (more) 84 S. Ct. 982; 11 L. Ed. 2d 979; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 1544
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Per curiam
Concurrence	Black
Dissent	Clark
Dissent	Harlan
Dissent	White

Hamilton v. Alabama, 376 U.S. 650 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that an African-American woman, Mary Hamilton, was entitled to the same courteous forms of address customarily reserved solely for whites in the Southern United States,^[1] and that calling a black person by their first name in a formal context was "a form of racial discrimination".^[2]