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Title
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Playing Through
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Description
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Article tells the story of the desegregation of Swope Park's public golf courses in 1950. Golf course #1 was for whites only, while golf course #2, a much smaller and poorly maintained course, was for blacks. Reuben Benton, George Johnson, Leroy Doty, and Sylvester "Pat" Johnson quietly and persistently integrated course #1 by playing repeatedly there.
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Date
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2005-07-17
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
