Playboy Club Suit Hailed By NAACP Legal Defense Fund Director-Counsel
Press Release
July 2, 1964
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FROM: NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
10 Columbus Circle July 2, 1964
y New York, N.Y.
PLAYBOY CLUB SUIT HAILED
BY NA&CP LEGAL DEFENSE
FUND DIRECTOR ~- COUNSEL
NEW YORK, N.Y.--The NAACP Legal Defense Fund this week praised
the Playboy Club of New Orleans for its suit against Louisiana
laws prohibiting Negroes from attending the Club.
Jack Greenberg, the Fund's director-counsel, called the
aeaupey suit a major legal step by a private firm aimed at
@ breaking down racial barriers in the south.
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+) "It is encouraging to see a private corporation invoke the
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« Constitution in seeking to open its entertainment facili-™!
ae to all citizens," Mr. Greenberg said. se r
he Playboy suit also asks the Court to issue an injunction ~
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restraining the defendants, who include Governor John McKeithen,
Mayor Victor Schiro, and other state and city officials, from
eneoreing the discriminatory laws or the segregationist policies
they embody.
PliayBoy International, which supervises the operations of
the.Playboy Clubs in eight cities, has 300,000 "key holders"
throughout the United States. A substantial number are Negroes,
However, the exact number is not known since Playboy Club
®amembership applications do not ask racial, religious or ethnic
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