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  • judge Elbert Tuttle, Republican civil rights hero

    08/03/2010 8:00:56 AM PDT · by Michael Zak · 3 replies · 2+ views
    Grand Old Partisan ^ | August 3, 2010 | Michael Zak
    Grand Old Partisan salutes Elbert Tuttle, confirmed by the Senate as a federal judge on this day in 1954... Scorning the Democrats' segregationist policies, Tuttle assumed a leadership position in the Georgia Republican Party in the 1940s... It was Judge Tuttle who ordered the University of Mississippi to admit its first African-American student, James Meredith.