Montgomery, Alabama Elects First Black Mayor WhatDoYouThink?
Judge Steven Reed has been elected mayor in Montgomery, AL, making him the first black man to attain the office in Alabama’s capital with 67% of the vote in an election that many point to as a pivotal step forward in the city’s lengthy
history of civil rights. What do“Before I acknowledge this as good news, I’ll need to know his policy on municipal water reclamation.”“Montgomery’s got a horrible past, so this guy’s got some apologizing to do.”Kevin Jones • Rug Tasseler
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First Black Mayor Elected in Montgomery, Ala.Montgomery, Ala., a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later the birthplace of the civil-rights movement, elected its first African-American mayor.
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Montgomery, Alabama's first black mayor-elect says he wants his city seen as a part of the New SouthThe man who will be the first African-American mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, wants his tenure to signal a new narrative for his 200-year-old city, he tells CNN. 'We want to be seen as a part of the New South,' Steven Reed says.
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Montgomery elected its first black mayor in 200 years. This is why it mattersAlabama's capital of Montgomery and the birthplace of the civil rights movement has never had a black mayor. But two centuries since the city's founding, Montgomery County probate judge Steven Reed won a mayoral runoff election, unofficial results show.
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