| Summary: | The Macon County Committee was created to study the possibility of abolishing the county or redrawing its boundary. The report discusses the public hearings held during the Committee's investigation and specifically describes the presentation of C. G. Gomillion of the Tuskegee Civic Association (though his name is not mentioned). The report makes no final judgment about the fate of the county but rather calls for the creation of a permanent legislative committee to examine "conditions in Macon County and the contiguous counties particularly and the state as a whole generally with the view of keeping current information on the problems of segregation." Because of the new Federal Civil Rights Commission, the Committee emphasizes the importance of handling such issues locally: "The interest of all citizens of Alabama, white and colored, will best be served by Alabama authorities and not by authorities who have no understanding of our problems, which problems are not of our own making but are problems brought about largely by outsiders who are not interested in the welfare of the people of Alabama."
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