he also talks about more racially charged redistricting fights such as the 1960 gomillion v. lightfoot supreme court case in which the court found a district had been created to disenfranchise black voters. that case helped lead to the 1965 voting rights act outlawing discriminatory voting practices. columbia law school is located in new york city. this is a little over an hour. >> we're going to continue our discussion of redistricting law. last time we dealt with one person, one vote. we'll review those, and we'll also talk about sort of historical examples of gerrymandering. the word "gerrymander" comes from eldridge gerry, the anti-federalist governor of massachusetts who in 1812 passed a redistricting plan which looked like a salomon der. and it's because of that districting plan and in particular one of the districts in it, specifically this one right here, that we then had the term gerrymander coined. so if you look, this is a picture of massachusetts, and that was the district right here which aldridge gerry drew. despite the fact that the federalist had won more votes in the 1