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Tup helped lead the fight to play on tax supported golf facilities explaining, “If you give me one good satisfactory reason why I can’t play on the city owned golf courses, I’ll accept it. If not, we play.” The efforts of Tup, his father Hamilton M. Holmes, and brother Oliver W. Holmes were rewarded 4 years later with access to all of Atlanta’s courses following the US Supreme Court’s Holmes v. Atlanta decision which ordered the city’s public golf courses to desegregate.
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