The Rev. K. L. Buford and Dr. Stanley Hugh Smith become the first black elected officials in Alabama since Reconstruction when they win seats on the Tuskegee City Council. Buford, a civil rights leader, and Smith, a sociology professor at Tuskegee Institute, defeated white incumbents in a run-off election.
K. L. Buford
- Date Created: February 14, 2011
- Date Digitized: Jan 13, 2021
- Creator: Dana Chandler & Cheryl Ferguson
- Contributor: Tuskegee University Archives
- Subject: Papers of K.L. Buford
- Format: Word Doc
- Source: Documents
- Publisher: Tuskegee University
- Rights: Copyright Tuskegee University 2023