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October 9, 2019

Steven Reed Elected First Black Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama
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Voters in Montgomery, Alabama, have elected an African-American mayor
for the first time in the city's history. Probate Judge Steven Reed
captured two-thirds of ballots in a runoff election Tuesday. Montgomery
was once the capital of the Confederacy. In the 1950s, it became the
epicenter of the civil rights movement, as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
and Rosa Parks led the successful Montgomery bus boycott to desegregate
public transportation.