Suit Asks Rights Act Compliance by S. Carolina Restaurant Chain

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December 29, 1964

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Suit Asks Rights Act Compliance by S. Carolina Restaurant Chain, 1964. 84cc8d8a-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/bbb6e904-7532-49bf-8c91-d5ab67888776/suit-asks-rights-act-compliance-by-s-carolina-restaurant-chain. Accessed August 10, 2025.

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New York, N.Y. 10019 
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NAACP 2 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers i o RELEASE 

Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg December 29, 1964 

Associate Counsel 

Constance Baker Motley 

SUIT ASKS RIGHTS ACT COMPLIANCE 
BY S. CAROLINA RESTAURANT CHAIN 

COLUMBIA, S.C,---The first South Carolina suit seeking compliance 

by a restaurant with the provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 

was filed in Federal District Court here last week by attorneys of 

the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 

Hit in the suit was Piggie Park Enterprises, which operates 

several restaurants in the Columbia area and in other cities 

throughout the state. 

Legal Defense Fund attorneys are currently engaged in 17 suits 

in seven Southern states to enforce the Civil Rights Act. 

In the only previous South Carolina court action under the new 

law, Legal Defense Fund lawyers are seeking an order that would end 

discrimination in Orangeburg movie theaters. 

The suit against the Piggie Park restaurant chain was brought 

after Negroes had been refused service at the downtown Columbia 

branch. Other Negroes represented in the suit by the Legal Defense 

Fund were told at two Piggie Park drive-ins that they could buy food 

but could not eat on the premises. 

» In their complaint, the Legal Defense Fund lawyers asserted 

that a Federal action was necessary to secure enforcement, since 

neither South Carolina nor the city of Columbia has a law 

prohibiting discrimination in places of public accommodation. 

Filing the Legal Defense Fund suit were Director-Counsel, 

Jack Greenberg of New York, and Matthew J. Perry, Lincoln C, Jenkins, 

Jz Sadttemchi ll P, Pride II, all of Columbia. 

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

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