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Article: Ohioan who built his own golf course after being barred from white clubs enjoys its success 50 years later. (William Powell)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- August 5, 1996
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William Powell, 79, never wavered in his goal for equitable treatment on the golf course. So when Whites refused to let him play on their facilities, he built his own.
Powell cleared some farm land for a nine-hole golf course on Route 30 in East Canton, OH, and named it Clearview Golf Club.
Fifty years later, the club's plush greens and fairways span some 130 acres and have become a popular, integrated 18-hole course.
"When I first started, I never thought I would live long enough to celebrate 5O years," Powell told Jet while driving around m his golf cart. "You have to remember, when I started, (Black) people didn't have nothing, and the man was ...