Boston's districts must be redrawn

House map is ruled to be racially unfair

By Raphael Lewis

Globe Staff / February 25, 2004

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A panel of federal judges ordered Massachusetts House leaders yesterday to redraw the Boston legislative map, determining that the plan crafted by House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran and his lieutenants was designed to protect their own political futures at the expense of black voters' constitutional rights. (Full Article: 1142 Words)