The Alabama Constitution, approved in 1901, still has language regarding segregated schools, poll taxes and bans on interracial marriage. campaign2022 alnews alpolitics alabamanewsnetwork
But a change could be in store. Tuesday, Alabama voters will decide whether to remove Jim Crow-era language. It would also reorganize the governing document, which has been amended 978 times and tops over 400,000 words. The Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama says the size makes it the longest such document in the world.
“This is an effort to show, not only the rest of the country, but the world who we are today,” said state Rep. Merika Coleman , one of the lawmakers who led the bipartisan effort. The framers of the 1901 constitution were direct about their goal to maintain a government controlled by whites. Alabama has seen efforts previously to invalidate racist language, but this goes further, said Othni Lathram, the director of the Legislative Services Agency.
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