Question

In a 1964 Supreme Court case, this clause was used to force Ollie McClung’s barbecue restaurant to integrate. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this clause, which the Supreme Court also used to integrate the Heart of Atlanta Motel. This clause from Article I of the Constitution gives Congress broad powers to regulate businesses operating between state lines.
ANSWER: Commerce Clause [or Interstate Commerce Clause]
[10h] This attorney general was the plaintiff in the case against McClung’s barbecue. While serving as JFK’s deputy attorney general, this man ordered George Wallace to end the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.
ANSWER: Nicholas Katzenbach [or Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach; accept McClung v. Katzenbach]
[10m] Katzenbach later went to serve as general counsel for this company during its 13-year-long antitrust case filed by the DoJ. This company grew rich thanks to an invention by Herman Hollerith used to simplify census-taking.
ANSWER: IBM [or International Business Machines Corporation; prompt on Big Blue] (Herman Hollerith invented the electronic tabulating machine.)
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