Legal Opinion
Watson v. City of Memphis
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 27, 1963No. 424PublishedCited by 278 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goldberg
The issue in this case, simply stated, is whether the City of Memphis may further delay in meeting fully its constitutional obligation under the Fourteenth Amendment to desegregate its public parks and other municipal recreational facilities.
The petitioners, adult Negro residents of Memphis, commenced this action against the city in May 1960 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief directing immediate desegregation of municipal parks and other city owned or operated recreational facilities from which Negroes were then…
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