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[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/pain-and-terror-americas-history-of-racism by The Guardian 29/4/18] | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/pain-and-terror-americas-history-of-racism by The Guardian 29/4/18] | ||
Black men were lynched for “standing around”, for “annoying white girls”, for failing to call a policeman “mister”. Those are just a few of the horrific stories on display at a new national memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama. | Black men were lynched for “standing around”, for “annoying white girls”, for failing to call a policeman “mister”. Those are just a few of the horrific stories on display at a new national memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama. | ||
=====The racist history of voter suppression laws===== | |||
[https://unidosus.org/blog/2021/09/16/the-racist-history-of-the-voter-suppression-laws/ by Julissa Arce 16/9/21 UNIDOS US Blog] | |||
These voter suppression tactics continue a long legacy of efforts to silence us at the polls. Let’s expose the structurally racist roots of voting policies. As far back as 1909, the Arizona territory enacted a law that made speaking English a prerequisite to register to vote and run for office. The Arizona Rangers were then created to enforce this law and terrorize Latinos in the region. Today, Arizona’s Constitution still has a provision that mandates one’s ability to “read, write, speak, and understand the English language sufficiently well” in order to hold public office. | |||
