Playboy Club Suit Hailed By NAACP Legal Defense Fund Director-Counsel

Press Release
July 2, 1964

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LDF Praises New Orleans Playboy Club for Suit to End La. Segregation Laws

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  • Press Releases, Volume 1. Playboy Club Suit Hailed By NAACP Legal Defense Fund Director-Counsel, 1964. 9b8c62fe-b492-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/1d7700ed-d96c-4811-8b06-0dfab2ee3733/playboy-club-suit-hailed-by-naacp-legal-defense-fund-director-counsel. Accessed October 08, 2025.

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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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