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COOK v. ADVERTISER COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 3095-N.

323 F.Supp. 1212 (1971)

Samuel G. COOK, E. D. Nixon, Mrs. Johnny Carr, John M. Poole, Mrs. A. W. West, Sr., Robert Matthews, Henry Collie, Jr., Mrs. Erna Dungee Allen, Plaintiffs, v. The ADVERTISER COMPANY, Inc., Harold Martin, individually and as editor and publisher of The Advertiser Company, Defendants.

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

January 15, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris S. Dees, Jr., of Levin & Dees, Montgomery, Ala., and Solomon S. Seay, Jr., of Gray, Seay & Langford, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

M. Roland Nachman, Jr., of Steiner, Crum & Baker, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.

OPINION

JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs on their own behalf and on behalf of all other Negroes similarly situated bring this class action against The Advertiser Company1 and its president, Harold Martin.2 In their complaint, filed with this Court on June 15, 1970, plaintiffs allege that the defendants, in maintaining an all-white society page, have violated their constitutional rights under the First...

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