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Patrick Braxton , the Black mayor of Newbern , Alabama , will finally lead his town after being blocked from entering office by his white predecessors.
Braxton filed his lawsuit in November 2022 , alleging that outgoing mayor Haywood Stokes and his town council locked him out of the town hall and did not allow him to perform his mayoral duties.
The town has not had a mayoral election in almost 60 years and instead has the current mayor appoint the next mayor.
Three federal circuit courts have ruled that private citizens do have the right to sue, including the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals .
Newbern, a majority-Black town with only 133 residents, has not had a mayoral election in almost 60 years .
The town has a hand-me-down system where the current mayor appoints the next mayor.
Mayor-elect Braxton became mayor-elect on July 22, 2020 , and he selected five Black residents to join his town council.
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