In the fall of 1964, citizens in Tuskegee and Macon County prepared for one of the most important elections in a century. Thanks to the efforts of a strong local organization, the Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA), and its leader, Charles Gomillion, a federal judge ordered white officials to make positive efforts to register African American voters. Combined with local registration efforts, the ruling opened Tuskegee and Macon County to “a great concentration of assertive Negroes entirely qualified under the laws of Alabama to vote.”
Becoming Alabama:
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