Word: granderson
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When Carthan was elected mayor, four other blacks were elected to the five-member board of aldermen. With the support of three of them, Carthan embarked on an ambitious agenda, building a day care center and public housing. The anti-Carthan aldermen were Roosevelt Granderson, a grocery store clerk, and John Edgar Hays, a white cotton farmer. In 1978, one of Carthan's bloc resigned. He was replaced by another black, an ally of Granderson and Hays. The political balance shifted, and acrimony intensified...
...tiny police station and confronted the aldermen's chief. There was a melee. Carthan and his accomplices were convicted of assault and given three-year jail sentences; all but Carthan's were suspended. (He began serving his term last summer.) The mayor was required to resign, and Granderson was appointed in his place. Tchula's elections in June 1981 were a last, unequivocal rejection of Carthan's fitful reign: his two supporters on the board of aldermen were defeated, and his white predecessor as mayor was returned to office...
Three weeks later Vincent Bolden and David Hester, cousins from East St. Louis, robbed the grocery store where Granderson worked of $5,000, hustled him to a back room and shot him dead. According to prosecutors, Bolden and Hester were hitmen, contracted by the vengeful ex-mayor to assassinate Granderson for $10,000. Defense attorneys say that a drug dispute may have been the motive: Hester, an admitted dealer, testified that he once sold Granderson cocaine worth...
...Wednesday in the murder trial of Carthan, but much of his testimony was ruled inadmissible as hearsay, since Hester alone had made all the alleged arrangements with Carthan. The next day a new plea bargain was struck, this one with Hester: for testifying that he and Bolden had killed Granderson on Carthan's orders and for pleading guilty to felonious assault, he would not be prosecuted for murder...