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.

  • Jackcooper@lemmy.world
    66·
    11 months ago

    Inheriting political positions is literally anti-American. We fought a war over this. Fucking Alabama.