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Black voters help propel Democrats, including history makers, in sweeping midterm victories

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Black voters help propel Democrats, including history makers, in sweeping midterm victories
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By BILL BARROW, KIM CHANDLER and KATE BRUMBACK
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 8 when she was part of the crowd of civil rights marchers attacked on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, months before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
On Tuesday night, she stood in Montgomery, Alabama, to celebrate a resounding political victory for Black voters and others who refused to accept the law’s recent diminishment by the U.S. Supreme Court and several state legislatu

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