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The Herald
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
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Alabama House passes law prohibiting Tuskegee from incorporating as an all-Negro city, amid Negro boycott of white merchants over gerrymandering that disenfranchised Black voters. The proposed city would include 420 of 430 Negro voters in Tuskegee.
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Montgomery, Ala. (CNS)—Alabama House of Representatives struck again at the boycotting Negroes of Tuskegee who have been waging an all-out refusal to purchase from white merchants as long as they were gerrymandered. Continued on page 3.
Alabama Law Bars Tuskegee As All-Negro City
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gerrymandered out of their voting rights. Now the state has a new law which would prohibit Tuskegee from forming its own city and voting accordingly.
The new bill prohibits the incorporation of a new municipality within the police jurisdiction of an existing city or town. Tuskegee had been talking of forming an all-Negro city which would include 420 of the town's 430 Negro voters.
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Domestic News Details
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Tuskegee, Ala.
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new law prohibits incorporation of new municipality within police jurisdiction of existing city, blocking tuskegee all-negro city formation.
Event Details
Alabama House passes bill in response to Tuskegee Negroes' boycott of white merchants over gerrymandering that removed them from voting rights. Tuskegee considered forming all-Negro city with 420 of 430 Negro voters.