When the Department of Justice Prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan Out of Existence
Congress wrote three laws that treated voter intimidation as a federal crime. And they worked.
Footnotes by Jemar Tisby
Truth-telling at the intersection of faith, history, and justice Focus on white Christian nationalism + the Black Christian tradition
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