5/29/2023 0 Comments Members fantasygirlteens private![]() Soon thereafter, Shoal Creek Club changed its membership policy to allow African-Americans.įirst, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 contains an exemption for private clubs in their membership activities. Meanwhile, civil rights groups threatened protests. ![]() ![]() In response to Thompson preposterously and offensively depicting the exclusion of African-Americans on the basis of race as a virtue for the club, sponsors threatened to pull their deals with Shoal Creek. Thompson’s comments were made shortly before his club would host the 1990 PGA Championship. ![]() Take Alabama's Shoal Creek Club in 1990, when its founder and president, Hall Thompson, infamously (and inanely) told media that his club only discriminated against African-Americans whereas it welcomed Jewish people and women. Put differently, a decision to change a discriminatory membership policy doesn’t automatically prove an actual change in attitude. Those choices have often arisen in the wake of sustained public pressure or having to confront the prospect of diminished revenue. Decisions by private clubs to allow women, African-Americans, Catholics, Jews and other demographic classifications that had been excluded directly or indirectly through membership rules were decisions made voluntarily rather than under compulsion of law.
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