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Press Releases, Loose Pages. Federal Court Asked to Rule on Georgia Golf Bias Case, 1954. bd72b8f0-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/a75ffda6-63d0-447a-be59-44577c1aa487/federal-court-asked-to-rule-on-georgia-golf-bias-case. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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‘PRESS RELEASE ® e NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 107 WEST 43 STREET * NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 ARTHUR B. SPINGARN THURGOOD MARSHALL President Director and Counsel WALTER WHITE ROBERT L. CARTER Secretary Assistant Counsel ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS ARNOLD DE MILLE Treasurer Press Relations FEDERAL COURT ASKED TO RULE ON GEORGIA GOLF BIAS CASE December 3, 195). TIANTA, GA.--The Court of Appeals was urged last week to reverse an arbitrary lower court rvling which permits the mainten- ance ef racial segregation on golf courses owned and operated by the City of Atlante, Ga. The Court was asked to issue a clear-cut ruling barring all racial restrictions so that Negro players could enjoy the perk facilities on the same basis as other citizens, The request was made in an appeal filed with the U. S. Court ef Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on November 27 by NAACP Legal Defense end Educational Fund attorneys on behalf of 150 Nexo olf players in Atlanta, The appeal asked thet the Court set aside an esrlier court ruling which, wnile admitting that Negro golfers are denied taeir constitutional right in being barred from the city's seven golf courses and issuing an order restreining the city from refusing to let the players use the park facilities, postponed the injunction in erder that the city might have time to establish a Jim Crow regulation for use of the municipal golf courses by Negroes. In the appeal, Legal Defense lawyers argue thet while the state of Georgia is under no obligetion to provide golf facilities for public use “once it does so, St must provide such fecilities without discrimination based upon race and color," "We take the position that the state has no pewer under the Fourteenth Amendment to regulate or condition the use of public golf facilities on the basis of race and color," the lawyers argue, It is their view thet the 159 Negro players who have or *snized into a group are entitled te use the golf courses now and without being subjected to any kind of recial segregation, This case first came before the U. S. when Lilly wilson sought permission to use the course and wes refused because of declaratory judzmen the commissioners from barri and an injunction ining other Negro ayers The court issued its finding that adr were being discriminated against but :r b. @ indefinite postponement, NAACP Legel Defense attorneys for the golf ~irector-Counsel, Legel Defense, Robert Marshall, tant, and Jack Greenberg, Associate Counsel, E. E, Moore, Jr., S. S. Robinson and R. E. ? -3e.