C. G. Gomillion v. Phil M. Lightfoot, as Mayor of the City of Tuskegee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Brown, Circuit Judge, dissented.
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Circuit Judge.
The Legislature of Alabama passed a statute which changed the boundaries of the City of Tuskegee in Macon County of that State, Acts 1957, p. 185. The boundary changes reduced the area of the municipality. The plaintiffs, appellants here, are Negroes. They brought a class suit in the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the Mayor, the members of the City Council, and the Chief of Police of the City of Tuskegee, and the members of the Board of Revenue, the Sheriff, and the Judge of Probate of Macon County, and the City of Tuskegee, alleging that as a…
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