civil rights

Alabama

How a Failed Assassination Attempt Pushed George Wallace to Reconsider His Segregationist Views | History | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

After his shooting, a hospitalized Wallace holds up a newspaper touting his victories in the Maryland and Michigan Democratic presidential primaries. Bettman via Getty Images On May 15, 1972, the man Martin Luther King Jr. once called the “most dangerous racist in America” stepped up to the podium at a suburban Washington, D.C. shopping center. […]

Read More
Alabama

Alabama Congressional maps in question by Supreme Court | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The mural painted on the side of a Montgomery, Alabama building represents more than brush strokes. It depicts a time in history when poll taxes and literacy tests kept Blacks from voting. Fifty-seven years later, there’s a new tug of war around voting rights bringing Alabama to the center stage, once more.  It started after […]

Read More