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He spent 60 years building Black political power. He sees a wipeout coming. - The Washington Post

Press Robinson, who years ago mounted a legal fight to become the first Black person elected to a Louisiana school board, was on the losing side of the Supreme Court case weakening the Voting Rights A...

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BATON ROUGE Press Robinson had to show he could read, before he was allowed to become the first member of his family to vote in the 1950s. In the 1970s, he filed a trailblazing lawsuit that cleared t… [+77 chars]

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