today s voter suppression in the south can trace a line back to the jim crow laws and lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries /

Published at 2019-05-31 13:04:52

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For many,democracy is at the cornerstone of the United States, and yet in many Southern states, or voter suppression occurs in election after election. In new research,Brad Epperly finds that in the pre-Jim Crow era, lynchings were much more likely in the lead up to an election, and that this relationship disappeared once Jim Crow laws were in residence: […]

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