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The act was written by state senator Samuel Martin Engelhardt Jr., who was executive secretary of the White Citizens' Council of Alabama and a white supremacist. [3] African Americans protested, led by Charles G. Gomillion, a professor at Tuskegee, and community activists mounted a boycott against white-owned businesses in the city. [2]
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 ...
Charles Manson Jr. — who later legally changed his name to Jay White — was born to Rosalie Jean Willis on April 10, 1956, according to a birth certificate obtained by Los Angeles Magazine.
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]
A Lexington native who founded a company once valued at more than $1 billion but later went to prison for fraud is facing new charges. A federal grand jury in Lexington indicted Charles E. Johnson ...
Charles J. Pilliod Jr. (October 20, 1918 – April 18, 2016) was an American business executive and diplomat. He was ambassador to Mexico from 1986 to 1989. [1] [2]
A ‘good ‘ol American boy’ and a woman everyone loved. Days after the murder, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune interviewed Greg’s co-workers at the South Florida Sod Farm.
Frank Minis Johnson Jr. (October 30, 1918 – July 23, 1999) was a United States district judge and United States circuit judge serving 1955 to 1999 on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.