MONTGOMERY — Alabama lawmakers have begun a process to remove racist language from the state's 121-year-old Constitution.
The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday voted 94-0 for the resolution by Rep. Merika Coleman that streamlines the massive state document and removes lingering Jim Crow language. The legislation now moves to the Alabama Senate. If approved, it would go before voters in November.
While those provisions have largely been invalidated by court rulings, the vestiges of Jim Crow remain in the state's chief governing document, such as the fight to maintain segregated schools. The process began in 2020 after voters approved an amendment authorizing the streamlining of the state governing document."For several years, we've been working on cleaning up the Constitution and the wording in it, and this will move us forward with helping to accomplish that. There is some racist terminology in there and this is going to address some of that," House Speaker Mac McCutcheon said.
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