The Atlanta Inquirer

TWO SNUBBED
BY CITY PARK

Although attorneys for the city maintain that "there is no segregation in public facilities" in Atlanta, two Atlanta students got a court refusal from officials at Piedmont Park Monday afternoon when they tried to purchase tickets to the park swimming pool.

Frank Holloway and Ruby Doris Smith said that they went to Piedmont Park at 12:30 Monday and approached the ticket office to purchase admission to the swimming pool.

An attendant refused to sell them tickets, saying "You can go to a Negro park,"

Another park official approached, and told them that "We can't sell you tickets."

The officials did not say that their refusal was based on the race of the two students, but Holloway noted that white boys and girls were being sold tickets all around us.

Miss Smith indicated that she had called city hall and tried to reach the mayor.

She did, however, tell an unidentified person at city hall that "we will be back."

Holloway and Miss Smith said that they were representing the Atlanta Committee On Appeal For Human Rights (COAHR) and the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), both student anti-segregation groups.

Attorney Horace Ward, of the Hollowell and Ward Law firm, said that a student initiated suit against the city would be heard on Monday, August 27.

The suit, an "omnibus" action aimed at integrating all segregated public facilities in Atlanta, was filed over a year ago by student leaders Lonnie C. King, Jr., Herschelle Sullivan, Benjamin D. Brown, and swimming on the Charles Ly last summer.

After a hearing their refusal.

A large crowd of white youths, "mostly swimmers," gathered when city attorneys maintained "there is no segregation" in public facilities in Atlanta.

The two Negroes [were jeered by them].

No arrests were made, and Holloway and Miss Smith left the park.

The facility has subsequently been opened for integration away from Bitsy Grant tennis courts and the park closed.

The city-owned facility has subsequently [sold] tickets to a pool that the city says is integrated.

[They waited at the] Park after an hour's wait for [inte]grated use.

Miss Smith and Holloway told the Inquirer that a motorcycle policeman, a patrol car with two uniformed policemen, and a car with two city detectives came to the park shortly after.