Word: etowah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also engaged them in the First Amendment arena. He has called for a law permitting school prayer (not a moment of silent prayer, but the vocal kind). Specifically, he embraced the cause of Judge Roy Moore, whom the American Civil Liberties Union has sued for praying over his Etowah County courtroom. James not only raised money for Moore's defense; the Governor is suing the ACLU for suing Moore...
...White Southern Democrats, whose re-election depends on combining huge black voting majorities with much smaller shares of the white vote, came down in Thomas' favor after polls showed that large majorities of African Americans supported him. Among them was Lawrence C. Presley, the only black county commissioner of Etowah County, Ala. "I felt that we needed a black to take over that spot on the Supreme Court," says Presley. "We felt here in the Deep South that that was a very vital issue...
...ruling came in Presley's case against four white members of the Etowah County commission. For decades these officials had one prime function: supervising the county road budget, with each determining how funds would be spent within his district. In 1986 the commission settled a long-running voting-rights lawsuit by agreeing to expand the body from four to six members; they also agreed that the two new members would have the same duties as the four holdovers. Presley was elected from a newly created 65% black district in the county seat of Gadsden. Eight months later, the four white...