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June 10, 1961

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a reporter at large

GOMILLION VERSUS LIGHTFOOT: WAITING

Bernard Taper

REPORTER AT LARGE about the racial gerrymander in Tuskegee, designed to prevent Negroes from voting in municipal elections. In Tuskegee-the seat of Macon …