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.

  • @SuddenDownpour
    23•1 year ago

    They do have a mayor position, they just didn’t care for it until someone decided to run for it.