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The 1962 Senate election in Alabama, the closest since Reconstruction

The 1962 Senate election in Alabama, which incumbent four-term Senator J. Lister Hill won by just 6,803 votes out of 397,079 votes cast, was the closest statewide contest between a Democrat and a Republican since the end of Reconstruction in Alabama in 1874. The black population was still disenfranchised for the most part in this election and didn’t gain the effective right to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Hill:

  • Advocated the New Deal
  • Supported organized labor
  • Supported segregation
  • Accused the Republicans of exploiting the South

Martin:

  • Accused Hill of not defending segregation hard enough
  • Implied that Hill was too close with pro-civil rights JFK
  • Criticized foreign aid, especially to communist countries

More reading:

https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/lister-hill/

https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/james-d-martin/

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by IllustriousDudeIDK

Source: reddit.com
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