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The first African-American Boy Scout in the 29-year history of the Choccolocco Council to attain the rank of Eagle Scout was Edward Caldwell Jr. of Jacksonville, in 1948
i was foolish enough to run for congress in 1968, young. i am now matured. [laughter] but i remembered part of the reason for wanting to do that was to bring a voter registrations up. i lost royally. he was then the congressperson. and that was the second district. so when i ran my first time, the second congressional district, which had about at the time, about 15 to 18% registration. and actually, they sought leaders throughout the south to try to run. and i was one that agreed to do it. they really wanted a man, women, you want to know that. they wanted my husband. and he said he couldn t afford to leave his law practice, so i ran. but in losing we also raised old registration piece. and people began to see some opportunity in doing that. fast forward now to 1990, they had the redistricting that you are speaking about. because the voter right act had failed in turning to motivate wide elected officials to have fair representation. and so th