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Patrick Braxton said that the "minority White residents of (Newburn), long accustomed to exercising total control over the government, refused to accept his election as mayor.

For three years, Patrick Braxton says he has experienced harassment and intimidation.

For three years, Patrick Braxton says he has experienced harassment and intimidation after becoming the first Black mayor in Newbern, Alabama.

When Patrick Braxton became the Mayor of Newbern, Alabama, it should have been a moment of celebration. Although the town is 85 percent Black, Braxton was the first Black Mayor in the town’s history. But Braxton says his welcome to public office was far from warm.

Newberrn, Alabama's first Black Mayor says white former city officials orchestrated a relentless campaign to keep him from serving.

"There’s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town’s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall," Capital B reports."After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil r