LDF Attorneys Challenge Private "Clubs" Which Seek to Bar Negroes

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December 13, 1968

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LDF Attorneys Challenge Private "Clubs" Which Seek to Bar Negroes in Little Rock, Arkansas

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 
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PRESS RELEASE Director- Counsel 

Jack Greenberg 

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NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

FOR RELEASE 
FRIDAY 
December -13, 1968 

LDF ATTORNEYS CHALLENGE 
PRIVATE "CLUBS" WHICH 
SEEK TO BAR NEGROES 

WASHINGTON---The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to review whether 
privately owned and operated "clubs" and recreational areas which 
bar Negroes are covered by the Civil Rights Act df 1964. 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) attorneys 
asked the High Court to rule in the case of two Little Rock, Ark. 
Negroes, Mrs. Doris Daniel and Mrs. Rosalyn Kyles. 

The women charged that the Lake Nixon Club, Pulaski County, 
Ark., was "depriving them, and Negro citizens similarly situated, 
of rights, privileges and immunities" under the Constitution and 
Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

Lake Nixon is a recreational area made up of 232 acres and 
servicing approximately 100,000 persons each season. 

General advertisements offer memberships in the "club" for 
twenty-five cents. 

LDF attorneys said in their brief that "a significant number 
of people know that Lake Nixon is in fact open to the white public 
in general and that a nominal membership fee is charged simply to 
exclude undesirables including Negroes." 

If successful, the LDF will establish law affecting resort- 
type recreational facilities across the nation. 

LDF attorneys John W. Walker and Norman J. Chachkin of Little 
Rock are joined by Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, 
III, Norman C. Amaker, and Conrad K. Harper of New York City. 

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NOTE: Though the LDF was once part of the NAACP, it is now a 
completely separate and distinct organization even though the 
initials are retained in its title.

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