Correspondence from Lani Guinier to Mary Thornton (Washington Post)

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January 12, 1983

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- Legal Department General
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- Lani Guinier and others
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Press Releases, Volume 1. Defense Fund Attorneys Win St. Augustine, Fla. Victory, 1964. 0fbe322a-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/02cbf13a-6eb1-4d1d-a52b-c24e70626e5c/defense-fund-attorneys-win-st-augustine-fla-victory. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 

New York, N.Y. 10019 

yo’ JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers August 8, 1964 
Director-Counsel 

k Greenberg 

‘ Constance Baker Motley 

DEFENSE FUND ATTORNEYS WIN 
ST. AUGUSTINE,FLA. VICTORY 

Jacksonville, Fla,--A federal judge yesterday ordered 17 St. 

Augustine, Fla. motels and restaurants to start serving Negroes 

this weekend and enjoined segregationists from interfering with 

either the white owners or their Negro patrons. 

Acting on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership 

Conference and local Negroes, attorneys of the NAACP Legal 

Defense Fund won their second test of the 1964 Civil Rights 

Act. The lawyers challenged the new pattern of resistance to 

the historic law. 

This pattern crops up when white segregationists have 

attacked Negro customers, and sometimes the white owners, when 

the stores, motels and other public facilities have peacefully 

integrated. 

Most of the restaurants included in the order by Jugge 

Bryan Simpson had initially complied with the public accom- 

modations section of the new law, but had Resegregated under 

pressure from segregationists, 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys Leroy D. Clark, of the 

Fund's New York headquarters, and cooperating lawyer Tobias 

Simon of Miami, Fla. handled the case. 

An attorney for most of the white extremist groups named 

in the suit consented to the order barring interference with . 

the act. However, the Ku Klux Klan, the U.S.Klans, Inc., and 

the National States Rights Party were sot party to the agree- 

ment to stop interfering. 

(more) 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 So 



Defense Fund Attorneys Win -2- August 8, 1964 
St. Augustine,Fla. Victory 

Attorney Clark said this week that these groups will 

remain defendants, and that the Legal Defense Fund will re- 

quest a further hearing should they attempt to stop desegre- 

gation at the motels and restaurants. 

But the major group of segregationists, Halstead (Hoss) 

Manucy's Ancient City Hunting Club, was specifically forbidden 

from threatening, intimidating, or coercing any of the white 

Mamagers or Negroes seeking service, Attorney Clark reported. 

The first Civil Rights Act test case won by the Legal 

Defense Fund -- the nation's first case to seek enforcement 

of the bill -- came when a three judge federal court in 

Atlanta, Ala, issued a temporary injunction desegregating the 

Pickrick restaurant. 

Pickrick owner Lester Maddox drove off three Negro cus- 

tomers at gun point when they sought service,

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