He spent 60 years building Black political power. He sees a wipeout coming.

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 the way for him to be the first Black person elected to the city’s school board....

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