Let Them Play: Three Words That Changed the Course of a City

In 1950, two young African-American boys risked their lives to play on a segregated golf course in Austin, Texas, not knowing the impact they would have on civil rights in the south. The boys were detained and their fate left in the hands of the Mayor and City Council of Austin. What transpired became a significant step forward in the struggle for equal rights to public places in the southern United States. Lions Municipal Golf Course is now recognized as the first public golf course in the south to desegregate. "Let Them Play" is a documentary film about the history of "Muny," how it became a nationally recognized Civil Rights Landmark, and the fifty year fight to save it from being closed and the land commercially developed.