Word: tchula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three-quarters of Tchula, Miss. (pop. 1,900), is black, and the town was proud five years ago when the first black mayor took office. Eddie Carthan's election was seen as a triumph of fair play after decades of rigged politics. But things did not turn out so simply. Last year Carthan, 33, was convicted of assaulting a policeman and forced to leave office. Now he is on trial again, accused of arranging the murder of his principal black political opponent in town. Carthan says he has been framed by the white Establishment of Tchula and Holmes County...
...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...