Protesters try to enter a recent public hearing on redistricting in Louisiana. Photo: Wayan Barre/REUTERS In 1972, Dr. Press Robinson Sr. decided to run for the school board in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. A chemistry professor at Southern University, Robinson was married with two sons and had grown frustrated with the lack of resources schools provided to Black children like his. He remembers the campaign as frustrating. No Black candidate had ever been elected to a seat, and the school