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Georgia's voting law: If it's not Jim Crow, what is it? It's at least Jim Crow-adjacent. Then, as now, there was a web of disenfranchisement, but not an explicit statute that said: 'Black people can't vote.' By Jamelle Bouie New York Times April 7, 2021 — 12:02pm Text size Copy shortlink: The laws that disenfr...
April 6, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Black voters waiting to get into the Haywood County Courthouse in Tennessee to register to vote in 1960. Credit...Walter Sanders/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images The laws that disenfranchised Black Americans in the South and established Jim Crow did not actually say they were disenfranchising Black Americans and creating a one-party racist state. I raise this because of a debate among politicians and partisans on whether Georgiaâs new election law â rushed through last month by the stateâs Republican legislature and signed by Gov. Bri...