People’s Lawyers

Klebanow, Diana; Jonas, Franklin L.

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“…As Morris Dees recalls, he was not a well-known lawyer at the time, and it was before he cofounded the Southern Poverty Law Center. 197 Smith v. YMCA 198 was his first civil rights case, "I filed that suit in 1969 when I . .…”

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Desegregation of City Parks and the Civil Rights Movement: The Case of Oak Park in Montgomery, Alabama

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2019

Journal of Urban History

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This article analyzes the history of desegregation of city parks in Montgomery, Alabama. The article chronicles the sixteen-year legal battle to desegregate parks in Montgomery and the efforts of city officials to keep parks segregated, including closing all of the parks for seven years, contracting with the Montgomery YMCA to operate segregated private recreation facilities, and allowing only segregated schools to use the parks. The article explores the connection between park segregation and the Montgomery Bus Boycott and school segregation, and questions why public officials fought to keep parks segregated after other public facilities began court-ordered desegregation, and why the story of park desegregation in Montgomery is largely unknown. The article concludes with a call to confront the history of park segregation in Montgomery.

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Desegregation of City Parks and the Civil Rights Movement: The Case of Oak Park in Montgomery, Alabama

Retzlaff

2019

Journal of Urban History

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