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June 17, 1961

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a reporter at large

GOMILLION VERSUS LIGHTFOOT AN EMINENTLY REALISTIC BODY OF MEN

Bernard Taper

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Supreme Court's deliberation on the Gomillion Versus Lightfoot, the Tuskegee racial gerrymander. The court ruled the act …