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...ROLLESTON WEST Carmel, Calif...
...Must Bow." Upon hearing of the decision, Moreton Rolleston, president of the Heart of Atlanta Motel, complained: "This makes possible a socialistic state." Ollie McClung Sr., co-owner of Ollie's Barbecue, declared: "I'm shocked...
...Negroes walked into Ollie's -which grosses some $450,000 annually-and were served. As for the motel, it had begun accepting Negroes under an earlier federal court order, but only five couples had applied so far-probably because its rates are the highest in Atlanta. And even Rolleston took a philosophical view of the eventual outcome of such race controversies. "With my grandchildren, there won't be any problems at all," he said. "They won't even know there were...
Ignoring that evidence, the motel's Owner-Lawyer Moreton Rolleston Jr. proceeded to lecture the Justices: "The argument that this law was passed to relieve a burden on interstate commerce is so much hogwash. It was intended to regulate the acts of individuals." If the commerce clause can be stretched that far, declared Rolleston, "Congress can regulate every facet of life...
...accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Just 2 hrs. and 10 min. after President Johnson had signed the bill, Maddox ordered three Negroes away from his place at gunpoint. Then, a three-judge panel in Atlanta ordered him to desegregate the Pickrick, but instead, he and Moreton Rolleston Jr., operator of the Heart of Atlanta Motel, asked Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (who oversees the South's Fifth Judicial Circuit) to stay the effectiveness of the lower court's ruling. Black refused to do so, explaining that to delay the enforcement of the law would...