Local white residents lobbied the Alabama legislature to redefine the boundaries of the city to form a 28-sided figure, by which nearly all African-American voters would be excluded and no whites would be.
Local white residents lobbied the Alabama legislature to redefine the boundaries of the city. Without debate in 1957 and ignoring African-American protests, the legislature enacted Local Law 140, to form a 28-sided city boundary by which nearly all African-American voters would be excluded and no whites would be.