 Barred from the ballot in the November 1968 general election, the new "National Democratic Party of Alabama" filed suit in federal court and a special election was ordered.In the new vote, African-American candidates won four of the five seats on the Greene County Commission, and two additional seats on the five-member Greene County School Board, and the "Montgomery Advertiser" would note the next day that "the election gave blacks control of both major governing bodies— a first in Alabama.