Word: macon
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...There is a more serious concentration now on the hard issues of economics and politics" says Vernon Jordan, director of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project. Jordan finds it hopeful that blacks have elected mayors in Fayette, Miss., and Chapel Hill, N.C., and the sheriff of Macon County, Ala. Those successes are partly counterbalanced by such setbacks as the defeat of black Councilman Tom Bradley in the Los Angeles mayoral race and the landslide election of a tough law-enforcement mayor in Minneapolis...
...reasons Mike Lottman, who was the editor, gave for closing down the over-indebted Courier was that the Federal Government, the organization which should be most responsive, was behind the worst discrimination. Take, for example, Macon Country, an Alabama country which is 85 per cent back. For years whites held all the elected positions. Then, with the coming of the Civil Rights Movement, Negroes started working their way into the system. It was Macon County that elected the first black sheriff ever (or since reconstruction) in the South. (His name was Lucius Amerson. It got lots of New York Times...
...Macon County, as in all other farming regions in the South, one of the most decisive government agencies in farmers' lives in the ASCS committee (part of the department of Agriculture, I believe). The ASCS tells farmers the quotas that limit how many acres they can plant with cotton and other crops. With whites controlling the committees, the big white farmers got as large a cotton allotment as they wanted while the Negroes, usually with much smaller farms, had to make it all balance by having their allotments shaved. Often Negroes are tenant farmers on a white man's land...
...took the Negroes of Macon County a three-year campaign, which cost $20,000, to finally gain control of the ASCS board in their 85 per cent black county. That was last year. It's the only one like it in the state...