User:Mitchumch/Tuskegee movement
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{{Infobox civil conflict
| title = Tuskegee movement
| partof = the Civil Rights Movement
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| place = Tuskegee, Alabama
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- Smith v. Allwright (1944)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Alabama Act 140 (1957)
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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
- Formation of Tuskegee Civil Association (TCA) in 1941 - formerly the Tuskegee Men's Club
- Smith v. Allwright (1944)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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}}
External links
- {{cite web|last1=Schexnayder|first1=C. J.|title=Lee v. Macon County Board of Education|url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3407|website=The Encyclopedia of Alabama|publisher=Alabama Humanities Foundation|accessdate=4 August 2015|date=February 25, 2013}}
- {{cite web|title=50th Anniversary of Tuskegee Public High School Integration|url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?314498-1/50th-anniversary-tuskegee-public-high-school-integration|website=C-SPAN|publisher=National Cable Satellite Corporation|accessdate=3 August 2015|date=August 24, 2013}}