[2][1] In December 1945, Judge Clarke dismissed the suit of eight white property owners who tried to force fifty African-American occupants (250 residents) from the West Adams area in Los Angeles.

The defendants, who included actress Hattie McDaniel and singer Ethel Waters, replied that the original subdivision restrictions had expired and that more than half of the area was then owned by black people.

Clark decided that no testimony would be taken in the case, stating that: It is time that members of the Negro race are accorded, without reservations and evasions, the full rights guaranteed them under the 14th amendment of the Federal Constitution.

Certainly there was no discrimination against the Negro race when it came to calling upon its members to die on the battlefields in defense of this country in the war just ended.

In July 1970 at La Casa Pacifica he swore James Day Hodgson into office as Secretary of Labor for the Nixon administration.