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Though The Heavens Fall, Part 1

The Texan newspaperman who was born into slavery and helped shape the history of civil rights.

by John Jeremiah Sullivan, Joel Finsel via Oxford American on February 26, 2015

African Americans campaigning for Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker, and Confederate symbols in Georgia.

Minority Rule(s)

Georgia’s competitive runoff election is the result of centuries of white supremacist efforts.

by Anthony Conwright via The Forum on December 6, 2022

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs state legislation on voting rights.

The Strange Career of Voting Rights in Texas

Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.

by Derek C. Catsam via The Activist History Review on October 20, 2021

Standing on the Crater of a Volcano

In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.

by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on July 27, 2020

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