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Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Montgomery.
Patricia Jeter says she came from Tuskegee to fight back.
Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter says there's an opportunity for Republicans to win all seven of Alabama's congressional seats.
The Supreme Court effectively removed race as a consideration for drawing congressional districts.
Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Montgomery.
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to lift restrictions in voting rights cases that prevent it from redistricting until the 2030 census.
Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall says it's time for Alabama to be treated like most other states when it comes to redistricting.
Hard-fought civil rights games are at risk, says Shalala Dowdy, a voter from Mobile who sued to get a second black member of Congress.
Louisiana is also drawing new congressional districts after its high court victory.
I'm standing on the top step of the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, where there's a star that marks the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy in
in 1861.
A little over a hundred years later, Governor George Wallace stood in this same columned portico to take his oath of office and declare segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.
Murray says the proximity of history-changing moments in Montgomery is extraordinary.
Montgomery is central to so many of the nation's inflection points, dating to 1861 when Southern delegates gathered in the Alabama state capitol to draw up the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, a founding document that codified the right to own slaves.
Within blocks of the capitol,
There's the church where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
started his career, a circle that was once a busy slave market, and the spot where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat.
That's Rosa Parks in an interview with Berkeley radio station KPFA explaining why she was willing to be arrested rather than yield her seat to a white passenger on December 1, 1955.