Word: macon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgians expect Bill Hartsfield to have better success than earlier pleaders. But Georgians do believe that the county-unit system will eventually be defeated. The state's population is flowing from farm to city; growing cities-Macon, Augusta, Savannah, etc.-are beginning to suffer what Atlanta has suffered for 60 years at the hands of county legislators. When the cities agitate together, the wool-hats' reign may be doomed at last...
...debaters from Mercer University, Macon, Ga. last week began a six-month invasion of northern colleges and universities to defend the proposition: Resolved, That racial segregation in the South should be maintained. Seniors Beverley Bates and L. Martelle Layfield faced debaters from Princeton's American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the U.S.'s oldest collegiate debating group, amiably insisted beforehand that they were not making the tour as "Confederate knights in shining armor," but as private citizens interested in finding "a free arena of discussion where reasonable people can achieve better understanding." Seemingly at odds with the proposition they were...
...respected Negro Tuskegee Institute-outside the city's limits. Forthwith, the city of Tuskegee was hard hit by a Negro boycott (TIME, July 8) that slashed white merchants' business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro trade. Incensed at the boycott, alarmed because Tuskegee-encompassing Macon County is 84% Negro, Senator Engelhardt, officer in the lily-white Alabama Association of Citizens' Councils, hatched a king-size gerrymander. Last week, by a 21,012-vote margin, Alabama voters approved his constitutional amendment to abolish Macon County...
Opposition to the Engelhardt proposal was strong, not because many Alabamans were suddenly reconciled to Negro voting, but because they agreed with the Birmingham News that "it leaves unanswered a number of questions as to division of tax moneys and the responsibilities for the areas of Macon which may be divided." Nonetheless, the Engelhardt plan can now run its course. Whenever they choose, commissioners of Macon County can meet commissioners of abutting Tallapoosa, Elmore, Lee, Bullock and Montgomery Counties, apportion among the other five Macon County's 618 square miles. Then, when the legislature approves, Macon County will disappear...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 17--Alabama voters today apparently approved a change in the state constitution to allow the Legislature to abolish Macon County where Negroes outnumber whites more than...