The Alabama Legislature created the Macon County Committee in 1957 in order to study a proposed amendment to the Alabama Constitution that would enable the Legislature to "enact laws altering or rearranging the existing boundaries...or abolishing...Macon County, and transferring its territory...to contiguous counties." (Ala. Acts, 526, p. 720 [1957]). The Legislature continued the committee in 1959 and ordered that it meet at least once every year to study social and political conditions in Macon County. The committee was composed of Alabama House and Senate representatives from Macon, Elmore, Bullock, Lee, Montgomery, Russell, and Tallapoosa Counties. The Macon County Committee Records were created during the Committee's operations from 1957 to 1964. The records consist of maps of Macon County and of the surrounding counties; agendas and minutes of committee meetings that detail who attended each meeting and where the meetings occurred; minutes of public hearings on the proposed abolition of Macon County that were held in each of the contiguous counties; news clippings of articles and editorials about the committee's actions and about public response to the proposal to abolish Macon County; final reports from committee subcommittees that present statistical information gathered from census reports and financial materials revealing the repercussions of abolishing the county; and the Macon County Commission's final report that states the committee's desire for continued opposition to efforts by the Federal Civil Rights Commission to end desegregation in Macon County and the committee's belief that elements at Tuskegee Institute had created the necessity of possibly abolishing the county. Other miscellaneous financial information in the records concerns the day-to-day operations and expenses of the committee during its existence.
