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...Macon Theater was the first major business to close its doors-to both its "separate but equal" wings. For food, Negroes queued up at small Negro-owned markets or shared rides to neighboring Auburn and Columbus. Tuskegee's Fortune Fish Market shut down. Then Cooper's Market, on the town square, folded, along with a Texaco service station and the David Lee Clothing Store. White clerks began counting their days at idle five-and-ten counters. Some clerks lost their jobs. Merchants advertised special sales, open credit, looked in vain for expected "sympathy motorcades" of white shoppers from...
...original gerrymander, has already attempted to counter the boycott by asking for an investigation of Tuskegee's huge Veterans Administration Hospital, where nearly 2,000 (mostly Negroes) work. And up for referendum just eight days before Christmas is State Constitutional Amendment No. 18, a plan to consider abolishing Macon County (now 84% Negro) by dividing its land among five neighboring counties. A poll by the Montgomery 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...
...years the white-supremacist fathers of Tuskegee, county seat of Macon County, Ala., have contemplated two obtrusive facts about their small (pop. 6,700), highly segregated community. Fact No. 1: about 70% (4,800) of Tuskegee's residents are Negro. Fact No. 2: the town is the site of Tuskegee Institute, one of the South's influential Negro campuses and a powerhouse in the struggle for civil rights. The fear that some of the institute's teachings, e.g., on the Negro's right to the ballot, would seep into the town of Tuskegee has been heightened...
Drastic Remedy. To Macon County's State Senator Sam Engelhardt Jr., executive secretary of the Alabama Association of Citizens' Councils, the remedy was obvious. Sam Engelhardt, taking a look at Tuskegee's square-mile area, noted that most of the city's Negroes live in the northwest quadrant near the institute or to the south of it. The remedy, which he proposed to the state legislature this spring: shrink the city limits by some 50%-and in such a way as to reduce Tuskegee's Negro population to about 400, its registered Negro voters...
...Engelhardt and his fellow legislators had overlooked an important 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...