Legal Opinion
Evans v. Abney
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 1970No. 60PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
Once again this Court must consider the constitutional implications of the 1911 will of United States Senator A. O. Bacon of Georgia which conveyed property in trust to Senator Bacon’s home city of Macon for the creation of a public park for the exclusive use of the white people of that city. As a result of our earlier decision in this case which held that the park, Baconsfield, could not continue to be operated on a racially discriminatory basis, Evans v. Newton, 382 U. S. 296 (1966), the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that Senator Bacon’s intention to provide a park for whites only had…
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