Patrick Braxton said that the "minority White residents of (Newburn), long accustomed to exercising total control over the government, refused to accept his election as mayor.

A Black man who says he was elected mayor of a rural Alabama town but has been kept from taking office by White leaders of the town has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s a shame, aside from all the racism, Newbern actually seems like a lovely little southern small town.

    “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”