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Gomillion v. Lightfoot , 364 U.S. 339 (1960), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found an electoral district with boundaries created to disenfranchise African Americans violated the Fifteenth Amendment .
His great-great uncle, Charles Gomillion, was a Tuskegee University professor and the plaintiff in Gomillion v. Lightfoot, a landmark 1960 US Supreme Court case regarding voting rights that became instrumental in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [10] [33] Wright was given the middle name Gomillion in honor of him. [32]
Case was brought by Charles Goode Gomillion as plaintiff and was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court against the gerrymandering. [6] The case established a basis for the Voting Rights Act. [7] Johnny Ford, first African American mayor; Lucenia Williams Dunn, an African American, was elected in 2000 and was the first woman to serve as mayor of ...
The table at right shows the effects of the state passing a law in 1957 to redefine the city of Tuskegee in a way that excluded nearly all black residents, dramatically reducing the population by 1960. The city and other officials were sued under Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960); the US Supreme Court ruled against the state's action. [11]
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Missouri guard Tre Gomillion (right) holds MU head coach Dennis Gates back during the Tigers' Border War game against Kansas on Dec. 10, 2022, at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Mo.
The Court also used the amendment to strike down a gerrymander in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960). [69] The decision found that the redrawing of city limits by Tuskegee, Alabama officials to exclude the mostly black area around the Tuskegee Institute discriminated on the basis of race. [51] [70] The Court later relied on this decision in Rice v.
Atkinson, co-founder and co-director of Forward Justice, is fighting to give currently and formerly incarcerated people a second chance. He is the winner of the inaugural theGrio Heroes as voted ...