Letter to Caver from Fins RE: Typographical Error Regarding Fins' Address
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February 4, 1986

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Press Releases, Volume 5. Alabama Bowling Lanes Public- Cannot Refuse Use to Negroes, 1968. e2437f28-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/b9a209db-fc34-4a61-baa0-f7ccbcd06115/alabama-bowling-lanes-public-cannot-refuse-use-to-negroes. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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President Hon. Francis E. Rivers AA PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel egal fefense und Jack Greenberg Director, Public Relations NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jesse DeV I 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 qucssy UMnER 212-769-0687 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 4, 1968 ALABAMA BOWLING LANES PUBLIC CANNOT REFUSE USE TO NEGROES Legal Defense Fund Attorney Won Court Ruling AMA--A federal court ruled this week that bowling BESSEMER, ALAB, Negroes cannot alleys in Alabama are public facilities and that be denied their use. e Northern District of Alabama The U.S. District Court for th uit by Blevin Stout and handed down the ruling in response to a 5' Sammy Bibb, Jr., both Negroes of this city. Stout and Bibb charged they were denied the use of Holiday Bowling Lanes because of their race. by an associate of the NAACP Legal Their case was presented Inc., attorney Oscar Adams. Defense and Educational Fund, Aaoayine Attorney Adams argued that the—denialte i Stout and Bibb of use of the local facility was a breach of the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Law. Negroes have been denied the use of According to Mr. Adams, the state of Alabama. powling facilities throughout urt ruled similarly in five other cases involving bowling The col Fund had pending in the same area. alleys which the Legal Defense In addition to a permanent injunction against racial discrimi- nation, the court also awarded attorney's fees. e Ese xt of the National Association ed People (NAACP) it now is a the initials are retained NOTE: Though the LDF was once 4 pa for the Advancement of Color separate organization, even though in its title.