GILMORE v. CITY OF MONTGOMERY

Civ. A. No. 1490-N.

176 F.Supp. 776 (1959)

Georgia Theresa GILMORE, Gussie Carlton, Sylvia Johnson, J. C. Smith, Mattie Cargill, Fred Harris, George Stephens, Elizabeth Brown, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF MONTGOMERY, Alabama, a Municipal Corporation; Board of Commissioners of the City of Montgomery; W. A. Gayle, Frank W. Parks and Clyde C. Sellers, as Members of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Montgomery; Park and Recreation Board of the City of Montgomery; Mrs. James Fitts Hill, Father M. J. Rafferty, Rev. Louis Armstrong, Florian Strassburger, and Jack Hope, as Members of the Park and Recreation Board; T. A. Belser, as Superintendent of the Parks and Recreational Program for the City of Montgomery, Alabama, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

September 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Walter J. Knabe, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.


JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is an action commenced by the above-named plaintiffs on behalf of themselves as Negro citizens of the City of Montgomery, Alabama, and other Negro citizens similarly situated, seeking a judgment declaring that Ordinance No. 21-57 of the City of Montgomery, Alabama and the policy of the above-named defendants, their practice, custom, and usage of denying to these Negro plaintiffs and the members of the class they represent permission to...

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