Disrupters & interlopers: Charles Gomillion

The Disrupters & Interlopers series highlights lesser-known individuals from Southern history whose actions, though unpopular or difficult, contributed to changing the old status quo. To borrow the wording from his New York Times obituary in 1995, Dr. Charles Gomillion “led the fight that brought political power to the black majority in Tuskegee, Alabama.” Gomillion was a sociology professor and dean at Tuskegee Institute when he took on the Alabama legislature and its gerrymandered voting map of the Macon County seat in the late 1950s. His civil case, Gomillion v. Lightfoot,… Read more Disrupters & interlopers: Charles Gomillion →