Evans v. Abney

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1970-03-02

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Mr. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the Court. Once again this Court must consider the constitutional implications of the 1911 will of United States Senator A. O. Bacon of Georgia which conveyed property in trust to Senator Bacon’s home city of Macon for the creation of a public park for the exclusive use of the white people of that city. As a result of our earlier decision in this case which held tha…

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