that is just not the case. >> that is cherylyn harley lebon of project 21. >> this is the situation.eds to get down in the weeds in she's going to talk about the issues. she was talking about georgia. because of our effort, it is taken two or three years to implement the law. the first race after was the 2000 elections when black voter participation that everywhere. they say this was a historical problem. actually, the state of alabama's resistance to democracy as continued every decade to the 1970's, 1980's, until today, for decades into the 1980's, they resisted actually having districts that would let blacks be voted into local office, in places across the state. they were forced through a series of losses to ultimately open up their democracy to full participation. they then change the boundaries of a number of cities through these annexations throughout the state and redistricted on that basis. you come to shelby county, where mr. montgomery vs holder, the case headed to the supreme court, one of only two blacks ever to serve on the city council, the only one at the time -- part