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TONKINS v. CITY OF GREENSBORO

No. C-61-G-58.

175 F.Supp. 476 (1959)

Deloris TONKINS, Ruby P. Taylor, John Sneed, Mable Jackson, James Webster, Adam Steward, Hershey Crenshaw and Julia Holly, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF GREENSBORO, North Carolina, a municipal corporation, and James R. Townsend, City Manager of the City of Greensboro, North Carolina, Greensboro Pool Corporation, a business corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of North Carolina, and the three officers of said corporation: Dr. R. M. Taliaferro, President, Carroll O. Weaver, Secretary and Treasurer, and H. L. Coble, Vice-President, Defendants.

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

August 13, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Baker Motley and Thurgood Marshall, New York City, C. O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., J. Kenneth Lee and Major S. High, Greensboro, N. C., for plaintiffs.

H. J. Elam III, John F. Yeattes, Jr., and Jesse L. Warren, Greensboro, N. C., for the defendant City of Greensboro.

W. H. Holderness, Greensboro, N. C., for defendants Greensboro Pool Corp., R. M. Taliaferro, H. L. Coble and Carroll O. Weaver.

STANLEY, District Judge.

In the original complaint the plaintiffs sought to enjoin the City of Greensboro and its City Manager, James R. Townsend, from refusing to permit plaintiffs, Negro citizens of the City of Greensboro, to use the Lindley Park Swimming Pool, a municipally owned recreational facility, and to enjoin said defendants from selling the pool for the sole purpose of denying the plaintiffs their constitutional...

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