Prejudice In Top Club
(N.Z.P. A. -Reuter) WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. An exclusive Washington country club has stopped playing tennis with other clubs since it learned that one of them had a Negro woman in its team, it was reported this week. The country club was named by the “New York Times” as the Chevy Chase Club, whose members include the Defence Secretary, Mr Clark Clifford, Mrs Hugh Auchincloss, the mother of Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy, and Mr David Bruce, the United States Ambassador to Britain. The “New York Times” reported that the central figure in the situation was Mrs Carl T. Rowan, a Negro and wife of a former high Government official, also a Negro. The report said that when Mrs Rowan was invited by her club to play in its sec-ond-ranked tennis team there was a flurry of telephone calls, letters and secret meetings in the women's tennis league before the Chevy Chase Club withdrew from competition.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31775, 4 September 1968, Page 5
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