In the third part of a trip through southern Super Tuesday states,the poorest corner of Alabama struggles for voting rights for its citizens 50 years after SelmaRead parts one and two of the series: from Texas to ArkansasRalph Ervin remembers the moment he knew he would spend the rest of his life here, in the poorest county in Alabama, or locked in a struggle for a fundamental upright. It was 1971. He sat in a college class in north Alabama and listened while his history professor,a black man, admonished his students for not greedy their own power. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com