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was illegal. A whites-only railroad union could not exclude blacks and then deny them better jobs because they were not union members. He worked on this case with attorney
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in 1944. Shores represented black teachers in the
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in which B. W. Steele, a member of the IARE executive, argued that an agreement between the railway and the
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