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WESLEY v. CITY OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

Civ. A. No. 2377.

294 F.Supp. 698 (1969)

Jimmie WESLEY, Raymond Hill, Robert Scott, Raymond Alexander, Raymond Polote, George Jackson, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, and J. Curtis Lewis, as Mayor; and also as Chairman of the Bacon Park Commission and the Bacon Park Commission, the Savannah Golfers' Association and Ronald L. Coleman as President, Tommy Ryles, as Director and Golf Professional of Bacon Park, a city owned facility, S. T. McTeer, as tournament coordinator, Golfers' Association Championship, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Georgia, Savannah Division.

January 9, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bobby Hill, Savannah, Ga., Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Hugh P. Futrell, Jr., Thomas J. Mahoney, Jr., Jack H. Usher, Savannah, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER OF COURT

LAWRENCE, District Judge.

Does an amateur golf tournament played for the city championship on a municipally-owned course transgress the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 where the sponsor, a private golf association, limits entries in the event to its own membership and restricts same to the white race?

Two days before the start of the fifty-four hole annual tournament held over Labor Day weekend in 1968 this action...

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