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Gomillion Versus Lightfoot: The Tuskegee Gerrymander Case
Gomillion Versus Lightfoot: The Tuskegee Gerrymander Case
Gomillion Versus Lightfoot: The Tuskegee Gerrymander Case
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Gomillion Versus Lightfoot: The Tuskegee Gerrymander Case

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Originally published in 1962, this book is the true account of Gomillion v. Lightfoot, a case concerned with the denial of Negro voting rights in Tuskegee, Alabama in order to politically manipulate that township’s boundaries, and the first case of its kind to be argued before the Supreme Court.

Brilliantly and accurately documented, this is a probing report by Bernard Taper, one of the leading reporters for The New Yorker magazine, who traveled first to Tuskegee and later to Washington, in order to skilfully weave together the background material and the entire case.

Taper followed the case from its inception in 1957, through to the personal reactions of Tuskegee’s citizens as they became involved, and finally to the Supreme Court in 1960, where he provides a remarkable portrait of the court action and of the Justices as they worked toward their final decision…

A gripping read.

“Bernard Taper has done an extraordinary job of reporting not only the tangled facts of the Tuskegee Affair, but the feelings of those who were involved in it. With discernment and sympathy he deals with the deep currents of emotion that are eroding the sense of community that once marked the small towns of the South—a far more significant phenomenon than the occasional spectacular flares of racial violence.”—Harry Ashmore, Pulitzer prize-winning newspaper editor, author of An Epitaph for Dixie, and editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

“I only wish that every great constitutional cause could be illuminated by such a valuable and absorbing account of its background as the one Mr. Taper has given us for the Gomillion case.”—Professor Charles L. Black, Jr., Yale Law School
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPapamoa Press
Release dateApr 7, 2017
ISBN9781787204119
Gomillion Versus Lightfoot: The Tuskegee Gerrymander Case
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Bernard Taper

Bernard B. Taper (1918-2016) was an American journalist and author. Born in Scotland on January 28, 1918 and raised in London, England, Taper came to the U.S. alone on a freighter at the age of 11. He was a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during WWII and, immediately after it ended, became one of the “monuments men” charged with the duty of recovering paintings and sculptures looted by the Nazis. He earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in creative writing from Stanford. He used many of those skills during his reporting career at The Chronicle from 1950 to 1955. In 1956, Taper joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he remained for three decades and, with his friend and former Chronicle reporter Kevin Wallace, wrote countless Talk of the Town stories. Taper profiled 14-year-old chess prodigy Bobby Fischer; the first prime minister of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah; cellist Pablo Casals; and Broadway producer Jerome Robbins. In 1963, he expanded a series of his profiles of choreographer George Balanchine into a best-selling biography, considered the definitive account of the great Russian man of dance. In 1970, he joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, where he was best known for teaching a class on the writing of profiles and short biographies. Taper helped found the California Shakespeare Theater in 1973. He died in Berkeley, California on October 17, 2016, aged 98.

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