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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 ...
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]
Charles Edward Gibson Jr. was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, on December 20, 1925. [1] He graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1944. [1] [2] He attended the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1949, and the University of Michigan Law School, from which he graduated in 1952.
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]
Charles "Chuck" Morgan Jr. (March 11, 1930 – January 8, 2009) was an American civil rights attorney from Alabama who played a key role in establishing the principle of "one man, one vote" in the Supreme Court of the United States decision in the 1964 case Reynolds v. Sims and represented Julian Bond and Muhammad Ali in their legal battles.
Charles Hammond Gibson Jr. (1874 – November 17, 1954) was an American author from a wealthy Bostonian family who created the Gibson House Museum to preserve his family mansion as a Victorian time-box.
Charles Gresham Marmion Jr. (August 19, 1905 - December 7, 2000) was fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, serving from 1954 to 1974.