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Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation
Activists say the ruling could weaken Black political power further as they rally for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act and against redistricting plans.
- On Saturday, NAACP President Derrick Johnson's 117-year-old association joins scores of groups in Alabama for a rally honoring the Civil Rights Movement and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- The Supreme Court's ruling two weeks ago weakened the Voting Rights Act by barring race-conscious district mapping, prompting activists to hope for renewed crusade.
- Evans described splitting Memphis into three sprawling districts as a racial gerrymander, while Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called a June session to redraw congressional lines.
- Rep. Terri Sewell said Democrats prioritize reintroducing the Lewis Voting Rights Act, while Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock called current restrictions 'Jim Crow in new clothes' from his Atlanta pulpit.
- Evans envisions the movement as a 'second Reconstruction' despite activists facing a conservative network entrenched in the White House, Capitol Hill, and state legislatures of the Old Confederacy.
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In which Reverend Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., stated that these measures of the Court represent a direct attack on the legacy of generations
Thousands rally in birthplace of Civil Rights Movement to defend Black political representation
A crowd of thousands gathered in front of the city’s historic Alabama Capitol, the place where the Confederacy was formed in 1861 and where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke in 1965 at the end of the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March.
·Washington, United States
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In the birthplace of Civil Rights Movement, groups rally to defend Black political representation
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of people are rallying Saturday in the cradle of the modern Civil Rights Movement to mobilize a new voting rights era as conservative states dismantle
·Toronto, Canada
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