Legal Opinion
Simkins v. City of Greensboro
District Court, M.D. North Carolina
Decided March 20, 1957No. Civ. 1058PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYES, District Judge.
The City of Greensboro and the Greensboro City Board of Education concede that they cannot own and operate the Gillespie Park Golf Course for the public and exclude the plaintiffs and other Negro citizens of Greensboro from these privileges on account of their color.
Although the golf course has been available to the public for many years, whether by design of otherwise, Negroes have been denied the enjoyment of the privilege.
The City of Greensboro, before Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873, in an effort to comply with Plessy v.…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Ex Parte VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Buchanan v. WarleySupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Nixon v. HerndonSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Burton v. Wilmington Parking AuthoritySupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- City of Montgomery, Alabama v. Georgia Theresa GilmoreCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- Wolfe v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- State v. CookeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1958
- Kautza v. City of CodyWyoming Supreme Court · 1991
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