The Nation - News from Nov. 15, 1985
A federal judge in Tuscaloosa, Ala., sentenced a civil rights leader to six months in prison for his vote fraud conviction in the handling of absentee ballots for rural blacks. U.S. District Judge E. B. Haltom Jr. sentenced Spiver Gordon, a national board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to three years in prison but suspended all but six months of the term. He also fined Gordon $1,000 and ordered him to spend 500 hours in community service work. Gordon, who was convicted by an all-white jury, was allowed to remain free during appeal.
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