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.

  • zaph@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There are a large number of local elections decided because only one person applied for the job and they don’t have any issues like this.