A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.
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PFAW Member,
   The voters of Montgomery, Alabama have an opportunity to make history
   TOMORROW – and you have a chance to help -- by electing Probate Judge
   Steven Reed as the first African American mayor in the city’s 200-year
   history!
   [ [link removed] ]PFAW has endorsed Judge Reed in this race and we ask that you chip in
   NOW, before it’s too late, to ensure that tomorrow he WINS this historic
   race!>>
   Electing the first Black mayor of this 60% majority Black city would mark
   a monumental shift and help lead the nation toward an honest reckoning
   with its racial past -- and the necessary reconciliation.
   His win will be historic because before the Civil War, Montgomery was a
   center of the domestic slave trade. It was the exact birthplace and first
   capital of the Confederacy. It was the site of George Wallace’s
   “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever” speech.
   And it was a hub of violent resistance to the Civil Rights Movement, the
   site of a brutal attack on the Freedom Riders.
   Montgomery is also where the Civil Rights Movement built momentum, where
   Rosa Parks made her stand, where the African American community sustained
   for more than a year a boycott of the city’s segregated bus system, and
   where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as a national leader.
   Judge Reed is one of two candidates in tomorrow’s runoff election, and he
   needs to overcome the trend of voter turnout dropping off in runoff
   elections, which has been a challenge for progressive and Black candidates
   in the south.
   He has built a broad coalition around his pledge to work for a city that
   provides opportunity to everyone, including those who have been left
   behind, looked over, and left out.
   [ [link removed] ]Chip in now to make history and elect Steven Reed as Montgomery,
   Alabama’s first Black mayor tomorrow!>>
   Thank you for everything you do!
   -- Michael Keegan, President
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