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MOBILE, Ala. — Shalela Dowdy is one of the Black voters who successfully sued Alabama to have a bigger voice in Congress.

"It's about fair representation," she says sitting on a park bench beneath a sprawling canopy of live oak trees in downtown Mobile's historic Bienville Square.

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"It's about just making sure you have someone that cares about your community," Dowdy says. "Just being willing to go in the community and talk to the people."

The lawsuit, Allen v. Milligan, made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed that Alabama's congressional map discriminated against Black voters, in a state where African Americans make up about a quarter of the population.

When the Republican-controlled state legislature failed to create a new district that would give Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice, a federal court drew one with a Black voting age population of 48.7%. It stretches across Alabama, and includes much of the majority Black cities of Mobile, on the Gulf Coast, and Montgomery, the state capital.