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Amerson, 32, a onetime Army paratrooper and father of two, was forced into last week's runoff for Macon County sheriff when neither he nor white Incumbent Harvey Sadler won a majority in Alabama's May 3 Democratic primary. The county has the highest proportion of Negroes (84%) of any in the U.S., and Negroes hold a 7,000 to 2,000 voter registration advantage. Amerson's showdown victory was still a considerable accomplishment. Few men in the rural South are more powerful than the local sheriff, and the office is the most sacrosanct of white preserves...
...candidates of his race did as well in other Alabama runoffs. Negroes managed to win Democratic nominations for two lesser offices in Macon County and for a school-board post in predominantly Negro Greene County; otherwise, 22 Negro office-seekers were defeated, including Tuskegee Lawyer Fred Gray, 35, who had been favored to succeed in his bid for the state house of representatives. But although many whites continued to resist the inevitability of full-scale Negro political participation, there were heartening signs of reasonableness. Amid warnings of violence uttered by embittered Macon County whites, Sheriff Sadler took pains to call...
Dirigibles still evoke vivid memories of disaster-the stunning tragedies of the 1930s that destroyed Germany's Hindenburg, Britain's R-101, and America's Akron and Macon, and caused great loss of life...
...county level, where Negroes have a registration majority or close to it, and then run third-party candidates in the general election. If successful, Carmichael's strategy could lead to a collection of all-Negro parties able to win only in counties with Negro majorities. - In Macon, one Alabama county where Negro voters outnumbered whites even before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Negro leadership 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...
...Benning, Ga. A pair of admitted Klansmen, Joseph H. Sims and Cecil W. Myers, were charged with the killing and acquitted of murder in a state court. Federal attorneys subsequently accused them of violating Section 241, but, like Mississippi's Cox, Federal District Judge W. A. Bootle of Macon dismissed the charges...