What is Gomillion v. Lightfoot?
{{SCOTUSCase |Litigants=Gomillion v. Lightfoot |ArgueDateA=October 18 |ArgueDateB=19 |ArgueYear=1960 |DecideDate=November 14 |DecideYear=1960 |FullName=Gomillion et al. v. Lightfoot, Mayor of Tuskegee, et al. |USVol=364 |USPage=339 |Citation=364 U.S. 339; 81 S. Ct. 125; 5 L. Ed. 2d 110; 1960 U.S. LEXIS 189 |Prior=[[Certiorari]] to the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]] |Subsequent= |Holding=Electoral district boundaries drawn only to disenfranchise blacks violate the Fifteenth Amendment. |SCOTUS=1958-1962 |Majority=Frankfurter |JoinMajority=Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, Harlan, Brennan, Stewart |Concurrence=Whittaker |LawsApplied=[[Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|U.S. Const. amend. XV]] }} {{wikisource}} '''''Gomillion v. Lightfoot''''', [[Case citation|364 U.S. 339]] (1960){{ref|citation}}, was a [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] [[Legal opinion|decision]] in which the Court ruled the re[[drawing]] of the [[city]]'s [[Electoral college|electoral district]] [[Border|boundaries]] to prevent [[Black people|blacks]] from voting was [[unconstitutional]].<ref name=mendenhallEA>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3064 |title=Gomillion v. Lightfoot |author=Allen Mendenhall, Auburn University |publisher=The Encyclopedia of Alabama |access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> The [[wikt:unanimous|unanimous]] Court held that it violated the [[Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]].<ref name=Oyez>{{cite web |url=https://www.oyez.org/cases/1960/32 |title=Gomillion v. Lightfoot |publisher=IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law |access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> This [[legal case|case]] was one of several that led to the passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]].<ref name=mendenhallEA/> == Background == In 1957, the Alabama state legislature passed Act number 140 that changed the borders of the city of Tuskegee's electoral district.<ref name=ProCon>{{cite web |url=http://aclu.procon.o