“Let them play.”That was Austin mayor Taylor Glass’s response in 1950, after it was reported to him that two Black youths, one of whom worked as a caddie at the city’s only public golf course, Lions Municipal, had been detained after starting a round on the fairways and greens that had until then been strictly reserved for white golfers. The mayor’s three simple words made Muny, as the facility is known, the first desegregated public golf links south in the former Confederacy and quietly vaulted it into the history of America’s civil rights movement—a distinction that supporters now hope will save the course from destruction and commercial development.Muny was built by the Austin Lions Club in 1924 near the east bank of Lady Bird Lake.…
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