User:Mitchumch/Tuskegee movement

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| title = Tuskegee movement

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| place = Tuskegee, Alabama

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  • Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960)
  • Anthony Lee et al. v. Macon County Board of Education (1967)
  • Wallace v. United States

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  • Tuskegee Civil Association (TCA)

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  • Macon County
  • Board of Education
  • Board of Registrars
  • City of Tuskegee
  • Mayor of Tuskegee
  • Tuskegee City Council

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TCA member

  • Charles G. Gomillion, president
  • William P. Mitchell, executive director

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City of Tuskegee

  • Philip M. Lightfoot, mayor

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Prelude

Conflicts

Gerrymander of black voters residing in Tuskegee

  • Voter registration campaign of 1956
  • Alabama Act 140 (1957), act would gerrymander black residents out of city of Tuskegee
  • Sam Engelhardt, Jr., Alabama state senator & executive secretary of the White Citizens Councils of Alabama
  • Butler Chapel AME Zion Church, meeting place of AA community during protest about Act 140
  • Tuskegee merchant boycott: 1957–1960
  • John Malcolm Patterson, Attorney General of Alabama
  • Gordon Madison, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama
  • Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960)
  • Colegrove v. Green (1946)
  • Charles G. Gomillion, Dean of Tuskegee Institute & President of TCA
  • Fred Gray, attorney
  • Robert Carter, attorney
  • Arthur Shores, attorney
  • Frank Minis Johnson

Tuskegee High School desegregation crisis: September 2, 1963

  • George Wallace, Governor of Alabama
  • Macon County schools-Shorter and Notasulga
  • Anthony Lee et al. v. Macon County Board of Education
  • Plaintiffs
  • Fred Gray, attorney for plaintiffs
  • Anthony Lee, 1 of 13 plaintiffs
  • Willie Wyatt, 2 of 13 plaintiffs
  • Wilma Jones Scott, 3 of 13 plaintiffs
  • Henry Lee, 4 of 13 plaintiffs
  • Defendants
  • Richmond Flowers, Sr., Alabama Attorney General

Further reading

  • {{cite book|last1=Gray|first1=Fred D.|title=Bus Ride to Justice - Changing the System by the System: The Life and Works of Fred Gray, Preacher, Attorney, Politician|date=2012|publisher=NewSouth Books|location=Montgomery, Alabama|isbn=9781588382863|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bc4DqcUSi4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Guzman|first1=Jessie Parkhurst|title=Crusade for Civic Democracy: The Story of the Tuskegee Civic Association, 1941-1970|date=1984|publisher=Vantage Press|location=New York|isbn=9780533057009}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Hayman|first1=John|title=Bitter Harvest: Richmond Flowers and the Civil Rights Revolution|date=1996|publisher=Black Belt|location=Montgomery, Alabama|isbn=9781881320463}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Norrell|first1=Robert Jefferson|title=Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee|date=2013|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|location=New York|isbn=9780307828514|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uzFygvYrSycC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Schultz|editor1-first=David Andrew|title=Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution|date=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|location=New York|isbn=9781438126777|pages=316-318|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7m713xwK58C&pg=PA317&lpg=PA317&dq=%22Alabama+Act+140%22&source=bl&ots=JukvFyVkSE&sig=c2P4Ba8O-U67ewr4I0brjg5Q4uM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBmoVChMIn8G37uaPxwIVQfeACh0uVQAN#v=onepage&q=%22Alabama%20Act%20140%22&f=false|chapter=Gomillion et a. v. Lightfoot, Mayor of Tuskegee, et al.}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Taper|first1=Bernard|title=Gomillion Versus Lightfoot: The Tuskegee Gerrymander Case|date=1962|publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Company|location=New York}}