John Hulett

[3] In 1948, Hulett left his family farm in Gordonville, Lowndes County, and began to work in the furnace rooms at the Birmingham Stove and Range Company.

Following the directions of its president, W. C. Patton, Hulett worked to expand NAACP and encouraged African Americans to register to vote.

[5] In 1959, when returning home to help his sick father with the family farm, Hulett also brought the civil rights movement to Lowndes County.

[12] Hulett would serve as LCFO's chairperson and was also one of the first of two African American voters whose registration was successfully processed in Lowndes County.

[15] As an independent political party, LCFO joined the November 1966 county government election with a slate of twelve candidates.

[2] This electoral win was one of the most tangible changes brought about by the voting rights movement, as local residents no longer had to worry about arbitrary use of force against them.

[22] Hulett considered the black people's economic dependence on whites a significant barrier to their free and equal political participation in Alabama.