SIMKINS v. CITY OF GREENSBORO

Civ. No. 1058.

149 F.Supp. 562 (1957)

George SIMKINS, Jr., Phillip W. Cook, Leonidas Wolf, Samuel Murray, Arthur Lee, Jr., Lonnie Reynolds, William Holmes, Elijah Herring, Joseph Studivent, James Hagins, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF GREENSBORO, The Greensboro City Board of Education, and the Gillespie Park Golf Club, Incorporated, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division.

March 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kennedy & Kennedy, Winston Salem, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Herman C. Wilson, City Atty., H. J. Elam, III, John F. Yeattes, Jr., Robert F. Moseley, and Robert S. Cahoon, Greensboro, N. C., for defendants.


HAYES, District Judge.

The City of Greensboro and the Greensboro City Board of Education concede that they cannot own and operate the Gillespie Park Golf Course for the public and exclude the plaintiffs and other Negro citizens of Greensboro from these privileges on account of their color.

Although the golf course has been available to the public for many years, whether by design of otherwise, Negroes have been denied the enjoyment of the privilege.

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