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BROWN v. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE FORESTRY COMMISSION

Civ. A. No. AC-774.

226 F.Supp. 646 (1963)

J. Arthur BROWN et al., Plaintiffs, v. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE FORESTRY COMMISSION, Fulton B. Creech, Chairman, C. H. Niederhof, A. B. Taylor, Sr., John C. Pracht, Robert C. Edwards, Members of the South Carolina State Forestry Commission; Charles H. Flory, State Forester, and C. West Jacocks, State Park Director, and Davis Lee by Intervention, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

July 10, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Columbia, S. C., Jack Greenberg, Michael Meltsner, New York City, for plaintiff.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, Harry M. Lightsey, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and David W. Robinson, Columbia, S. C., for defendants.

MARTIN, District Judge.

This suit was originally filed on July 8, 1961, by the plaintiffs for their own benefit and on the behalf of all other persons similarly situated. In the Complaint the plaintiffs allege that they are denied the use of public park facilities in the State of South Carolina solely because they are Negroes in violation of their constitutional rights. The plaintiffs ask that certain statutes of the State of South Carolina, which allegedly require...

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