A redrawn map in Alabama affects Figures, who was elected from the state’s second congressional district in 2024. If the current map is struck down and reverted to the 2023 map, Figures’ seat would be in the 1st District, widely considered a Republican stronghold in the state.
Booker called Montgomery “sacred soil,” saying that if they didn’t fight for voting rights now, then “we will lose the gains and the rights and the liberties that our ancestors afforded us.”
“My grandmama, my momma, my mother-in-law – our ancestors did not cross that bridge, walk during the bus boycott, my cousins got locked in the First Baptist Church [in Montgomery], across from the police station in the 60s, my other cousin got beat up by a horse up on Jackson Street – we didn’t do all that for this,” Carole Burton, a Montgomery resident told The Guardian.
Source: TheGrio