PFAW Member,
Yesterday, Steven Reed was elected the FIRST African American mayor of Montgomery, Alabama with 67% of the vote! PFAW was and is incredibly proud to endorse Steven in his historic run.
THANK YOU, friend, for joining us in supporting Judge Reed and for your part in helping to make history!
Steven Reed's victory is a victory for the people of Montgomery and for the vibrant new south that Montgomery stands for. He is a visionary young leader who is also the first African American mayor of a city where so many seminal events in the civil rights movement took place. We are thrilled to congratulate him on his election tonight and believe it is a harbinger of things to come in 2020.
PFAW sent the below message to our members and, once again, you responded to the call to step up and fuel the fight for the progressive change our country so desperately needs.
Thank you again!
-- Michael
P.S. I pasted in the message below for reference but removed the donate links since this election is over. But more critical elections are right around the corner...
If you'd like to contribute to PFAW's ongoing efforts to elect progressives up and down the ballot, all across the country -- including history-making firsts like Steven Reed -- then please donate here>>
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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!
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!>> (link removed)
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.
Chip in now to make history and elect Steven Reed as Montgomery, Alabama’s first Black mayor tomorrow!>> (link removed)
Thank you for everything you do!
-- Michael Keegan, President
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