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...Alabama b) Florida c) Illinois d) Texas...
...also deeply involved in representing a death row inmate in Alabama whose death sentence was eventually overturned...
...wounds were many for a woman who grew up in Alabama in the 1950s and '60s; who as a child was warned not to roll down the car windows lest Ku Klux Klan members throw acid in her face; who as a teen watched men and women and children in satin robes burn a cross on her lawn; and who as a college student joined an armed protest to demand a black-studies program at Cornell University. She felt she had two choices after graduation: become a Black Panther or return to Nepal (where she had spent part...
After leaving the state to attend a law school that admitted blacks, he went on to defend Parks and King, and to help to desegregate Alabama...
Gray pointed to what she said were worrisome trends in Alabama at the moment. For the first time in 20 years, he said, there will be no black judges on the highest state court, and electoral districts have been redistributed in a way that decreases the number of black voices in Congress...