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Greensboro Six took their fight to play Gillespie to the Supreme Court

Course Features, HistoricalBy TG_Admin01 May 31, 2016 Leave a comment

By Steve Huffman Gillespie Golf Course is recognized as a tight nine-hole tract, as good a municipal course as you’ll find. It’s also recognized as the site of one of the battles in the civil rights movement, a place where a group of black men sought to integrate a course they weren’t allowed to play.…

Gillespie Park Both victim and survivor of different attitudes, changing times

Course Features, Featured News, HistoricalBy TG_Admin01 May 31, 2016 Leave a comment

By Steve Huffman Jim Melvin grew up across the street from Gillespie Park Elementary School, an area of east Greensboro that in the early 1930s remained largely rural. Melvin, now 82, recalled that, “When I was about 7, I watched them build a golf course.” It was a project that was to become Gillespie…