“In Georgia, beating back a 1949 challenge from black parents to equalize the schools, Governor Herman Talmadge had already proposed a constitutional amendment that would authorize the state legislature to scrap the public school system altogether and “channel state funds… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“The Brennan Center for Justice estimates that as “many as 12 percent of eligible voters nationwide may not have government-issued photo ID,” and that… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“White rage is not about visible violence, but rather it works its way through the courts, the legislatures, and a range of government bureaucracies. It wreaks havoc subtly, almost imperceptibly. Too imperceptibly, certainly, for a nation consistently drawn to the spectacular—to what it can see. It’s not the Klan. White rage doesn’t have to wear sheets, burn crosses, or take… — Carol Anderson Copy Share
“And so, at a December 1981 meeting, Contra leaders, whom Reagan referred to as the “moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers,” floated the idea that trafficking cocaine into California would provide enough profits to arm and train the anti-Sandinista guerrillas.108 With most of the network already established, the plan was rather straightforward: There were the Medellín and Cali cartels in… — Carol Anderson Copy Share
“African Americans weren’t the only ones who took a hit. The states of the Deep South, which fought Brown tooth and nail, today all fall in the bottom quartile of state rankings for educational attainment, per capita income, and quality of health.139 Prince Edward County, in particular, bears the scars of a place that saw fit to fight the Civil… — Carol Anderson Copy Share
“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there was no… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“The truth is, white rage has undermined democracy, warped the Constitution, weakened the nation’s ability to compete economically, squandered billions of dollars on baseless… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“Wisconsin took another tack when Republican governor Scott Walker championed a bill requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote, and then proceeded to close… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“These were not idle threats. Suspected labor agents were arrested routinely whenever a trainload of African Americans left or when the fields were empty… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“There have been proven instances of vote fraud in the past, but those cases involved election officials’ wrongdoing or the manipulation of absentee ballots.… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“Somehow many have convinced themselves that the man who pulled the United States back into some semblance of financial health, reduced unemployment to its… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12” — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“In Georgia, beating back a 1949 challenge from black parents to equalize the schools, Governor Herman Talmadge had already proposed a constitutional amendment that… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
