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This historic Black Belt congressional district hasn't elected a Republican since 1883, but it's just been redistricted

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North Carolina's 1st Congressional District has the state's only competitive congressional race.

The district is home to some of the oldest Black communities in the U.S. and a centuries -long legacy of political organizing.

Princeville is the oldest town chartered by African Americans in the country, formed at the end of the Civil War .

In nearby Warren County , a 1982 protest is credited with originating "environmental justice".

Woke Vote, a nonprofit working to increase voter turnout in rural North Carolina , is working to get out the vote.

Church leaders have been urging their congregants to register.

Pastor Douglas Leonard : "So many of our ancestors even died that we will have the right to vote, and we don't want their death in vain".

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