there were six black golfers who put together a challenge to that segregation, booker face, joe griffinegregation system at terrell park, and they joined with three black lawyers, two young lawyers from beaumont, theo johns and elmo willard who had just graduated from howard university in washington, and then a black lawyer from dallas, hugh simpson tate, who was the naacp lawyer for texas. and they put together a lawsuit against the city of beaumont. it was booker faison versus elmo beard versus the city of beaumont. that was in the summer of '55. and in order to set up the case, several of them went out to the golf shop at the terrell, offered to pay their money. they were refused, and so they got the case set up like that. and then after they set up the case, then johns and willard and tate filed the suit papers in beaumont, challenging the fact that they were not permitted to play the terrell because of their color. and the new judge, he had just been appointed recently, was lamar cecil. and so judge cecil had to handle this new case that was coming in. johns and willard and tate ar

booker face and joe griffin and bill johnny parker and earl black golfers are wanted to challenge the system at terrell park and they joined with three black lawyers, two young lawyers from beaumont, just graduated from howard who university in washington, and then a black lawyer from dallaa. they put a lawsuit against bow month, booker facen versus elmo beard versus the city of beaumont in the summer of '55. in order to set up the case, several of them went out to the golf shop at the terrell, offered to pay money, they were refused and so they got the case set up like that. and then after they set up the case, then johns and willard and tate filed the suit papers in beaumont, challenging the fact that they were not permitted to play the terrell because of their color. and the new judge, he had just

booker fasin and joe griffin and those other black gentlemen did get to enjoy the golf course and many of them played here for many years. it was a good ending for the black golfers and a first step in the desegregation of facilities in beaumont. the next summer the same three black lawyers went after a bigger pry. they went after the desegregation of lamar university here in beaumont. a state university, four-year college. lamar university was, by charter for white students only. so there were some black students applied for admission there, they were refused. and so the three black lawyers joined with two black plaintiffs, a 26-year-old woman who had graduated from high school and who had attended texas southern, and then a black young man who had just graduated from blessed sacred high school here in beaumont. it was a fairly simple case for judge cecile and the lawyers. again, brown versus board of education was about the public schools, but there had been other state colleges already desegregated in texas. and so the precedents were there for judge cecile. when it was all said and

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