A Black man who says he was elected mayor of a rural Alabama town but has been kept from taking office by White leaders of the town has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
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Patrick Braxton was elected mayor of Newburn, but was prevented from taking office after acting mayor Haywood Stokes III arranged for a special election in which he was reappointed mayor.

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