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LAGARDE v. RECREATION & PARK COM'N FOR PAR. OF E. BATON ROUGE

Civ. A. No. 1287.

229 F.Supp. 379 (1964)

Malcolm S. LAGARDE, Willie Major, Wesley Nicholas, Allen White, Roosevelt Spencer, and Alvin Scott, Individually and in behalf of Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. RECREATION AND PARK COMMISSION FOR the PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, a public corporation, and Ralph M. Hileman, Superintendent of Recreation and Parks for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

May 18, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnnie A. Jones, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs.

Sargent Pitcher, Jr., Dist. Atty., 19th Judicial Dist. Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, for defendants.

WEST, District Judge.

This is a class action filed by a group of Negro citizens, all of whom are residents of and domiciled in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana. This suit was filed on November 17, 1953, at which time the plaintiffs alleged that they, and other Negroes similarly situated, were being systematically denied the use and enjoyment of the municipally owned and operated recreational facilities...

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