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Authors

Jan M. Fritz

Abstract

Sociologist Charles Goode Gomillion has devoted his life to improving the status of black Americans living in the South. This essay provides information about Gomillion's years in South Carolina and Alabama and his professional work at Tuskegee University. His civil rights activities in Macon County, Alabama—including bis involvement in a landmark Supreme Court case—also are discussed. Four documents written by Gomillion follow this essay.

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