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Legal Citation: 382 U.S. 296

Petitioner
Evans, et al.

Respondent
Newton, et al.

Petitioner's Claim
That a Macon, Georgia park that had been left to the city on the condition that it be open to white people be desegregated, even though the park had recently reverted to private control.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Jack Greenberg

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
C. Baxter Jones and Frank C. Jones

Justices for the Court
William J. Brennan, Jr., Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas (writing for the Court), Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
Hugo Lafayette Black, John Marshall Harlan II, Potter Stewart

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
17 January 1966

Decision
Upheld the petitioners' claim, reversing the decisions of two lower courts and...