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Fair Ways - How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights in Beaumont, Texas (Paperback)
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Fair Ways - How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights in Beaumont, Texas (Paperback)
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In the summer of 1955, early in the modern civil rights era, six
African American golfers in Beaumont, Texas, began attacking the
Jim Crow caste system when they filed a federal lawsuit for the
right to play the municipal golf course. The golfers and their
African American lawyers went to federal court and asked a
conservative white Republican judge to render a decision that would
not only integrate the local golf course but also set precedent for
desegregation of other public facilities, as well.In Fair Ways,
Beaumont native Robert J. Robertson chronicles three parallel
stories that converged in this important case. He tells the story
of the plaintiffs-avid golfers who had learned the game while
working as caddies and waiters-and their young lawyers, recent
graduates from Howard University law school, and the Republican
judge just appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower. Would
the judge apply the new principles of Brown v. Board of Education
to the questions before him? Would he use federal judicial power to
override state laws and outlaw local customs?Fair Ways gives an
uncommonly vivid picture of racial segregation and the forces that
brought about its end. Using public case papers, public records,
newspapers, and oral histories, Robertson has recreated the scene
in Beaumont on the eve of desegregation, describing in detail the
parallel white and black communities that characterized the Jim
Crow caste system. Through this account, the forces at work in the
South-education, military experience, rising expectations, the
NAACP, and the rule of law-are personified dramatically by the
golfers, the lawyers, and the judge.
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