Steven Reed, the Montgomery County probate judge, beat TV station owner David Woods in a runoff and will be sworn into office Nov. 12.
Montgomery AdvertiserMONTGOMERY, Ala. – Montgomery, a city where more than half the population is black and known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected an African American to the highest position in municipal government for the first time in its 200-year history.
"This will be a historic day in Montgomery," author and historian Richard Bailey said."For the first time, the people of this city, especially African Americans, will be able to say that we have someone in the mayor's office who understands the pulse of the black community." "Civil rights leaders promised that an unencumbered black vote would bring real changes in American society," Moten said.
Montgomery is going through a noticeable transformation. Last year, the Equal Justice Initiative opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum in downtown Montgomery to honor victims of lynching. The memorial is adjacent to the slave market site in Montgomery. It has brought several hundred thousand visitors here, many who wouldn't have visited the Deep South otherwise.
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