Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.
This is part of Amicus and Slate’s “By the People” series, which explores how the American people can reclaim the Constitution—and the law—from this monarchical Supreme Court. Viola Liuzzo, a nurse and mother of five, was not even 40 years old when she was gunned down on the way home from Selma, Alabama, by the Ku Klux Klan after marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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This is part of Amicus and Slate’s “By the People” series, which explores how the American people can reclaim the Constitution—and the law—from this monarchical Supreme Court. Viola Liuzzo, a nurse and mother of five, was not even 40 years old when she was gunned down on the way home from Selma, Alabama, by the Ku Klux Klan after marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Vernon Dahmer had been active in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi for years when he was murdered by the klan in a firebombing that nearly killed his entire family. Andrew Goodman was barely 20 when he, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner were murdered by the KKK as they volunteered to help with voter-registration efforts in rural Mississippi.
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- This is part of Amicus and Slate’s “By the People” series, which explores how the American people can reclaim the Constitution—and the law—from this monarchical Supreme Court. Viola Liuzzo, a nurse and mother of five, was not even 40 years old when she was gunned down on the way home from Selma, Alabama, by the Ku Klux Klan after marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.
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