Protecting a landmark highway

"It means our National Voting Rights Trail will not be desecrated by a nasty garbage dump," says Barbara Evans, executive director of the consumer group Alabama Watch.

"It's a victory for the people, a victory for the environment," says the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

"It shows you can take on a giant like Waste Management, and in the end, justice will prevail," says Susan Copeland, an attorney from Montgomery, Ala.

And what exactly is "it"? A decision by Waste Management Inc. to not pursue constructing a landfill along the highway between Selma and Montgomery, a place made famous by a 1965 Civil Rights march. The Lowndes Citizens United for Action led the charge to keep the landfill from being built.

Who says you can't fight City Hall and win?