IPFS News Link • Bill of Rights
Segregated clubs in Kentucky raise issues for private business, civil rights law
• Washington PostThe push to integrate Kentucky's private social clubs, whose members
clung to old notions of Southern white privilege for decades after the
end of Jim Crow, began in the early 1990s with a lone, quiet protest:
At lunchtime on days when the weather was nice, a black preacher and
civil rights activist named Louis Coleman would put up a folding card
table in front of one of the many unofficially restricted clubs here;
set it with a tablecloth, china and candles; and dine on buns and
lemonade.




