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...based at Tuskegee Institute supports the notion of racial balance in local government. In 1964 this group helped elect a white mayor of Tuskegee and a council of three whites and two Negroes. This year it has withheld support from a Negro candidate for sheriff because, says C. G. Gomillion, retired dean of the institute, "we would be vigorously opposed to anything that could lead to all-Negro government...
...Victor. No one claims a victory, least of all the Negro spokesman, Charles G. Gomillion, 57, assistant professor of sociology and dean of students at influential Tuskegee Institute. "Believe it or not, we love Tuskegee. It's our home. That's why we asked to be taken back. For years we've tried to help build a better Tuskegee, one in which we share in the privileges as well as the responsibilities. But Negroes don't feel they can retain their self-respect by surrendering. We do not live by bread alone...
...Advertiser indicated that Macon County is in favor of the abolition amendment. If the rest of the state agrees, Tuskegee will lose its position and resulting trade as the county seat. "You find the people of many cities trying to build, but few trying to destroy themselves," said Professor Gomillion last week. "We have about reached the point of no return...
...point: if the heavy Negro population of Tuskegee and surrounding Macon County provides a political hazard, it also provides the principal economic income of Tuskegee's merchants. In the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church last week, a stomping, whistling crowd of 2,900 Negroes heard Professor Charles G. Gomillion, 57, dean of students at the institute and president of the Tuskegee Civic Association, lay out a strategy for fighting back without violence. "We will buy goods and services only from those who will recognize us as first-class citizens." Then, sounding a note reminiscent of Montgomery...
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