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Legal Citation: 364 U.S. 339 (1960)

Petitioners
C. G. Gomillion, et al.

Respondents
Lightfoot, Mayor of Tuskegee, et al.

Petitioners' Claim
That the state of Alabama re-created the Tuskegee City boundaries to eliminate most African American residents, preventing them from voting in city elections in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioners
Fred D. Gray, Robert L. Carter

Chief Lawyer for Respondents
James J. Carter

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, William J. Brennan, Jr., Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter (writing for the Court), John Marshall Harlan II, Potter Stewart, Earl Warren, Charles Evans Whittaker

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
14 November 1960