Biography
Charles G. Gomillion was a Tuskegee Institute dean and president of the Tuskegee Civic Association, who in 1957 led a Black boycott of white merchants protesting a state gerrymander that stripped almost all Black voters from the city. He was enjoined under Alabama's anti-boycott law, his offices were raided in a 'subversive activities' probe, and arrests were threatened; he went on to win the landmark voting case Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
