Brian Kemp sign it into law, seem less interested in distancing themselves from that past and more eager for Americans to forget it. The bill’s most ardent supporters, who lined up in front of a painting of a building on the site of an antebellum plantation to watch Gov. Opponents of the new Georgia law denounce the legislation as “Jim Crow 2.0” precisely because they recognize the continuities between past and present.
What legislators in Georgia and across the country have reminded us is that backlash to expanded voting rights has often arrived by a method that our eras have in common: by laws, like Georgia’s Senate Bill 202, passed by elected politicians. But we may not be as distant in our political moment from theirs as we might think: The long struggle to block access to the ballot has always relied on legal maneuvering and political schemes to achieve what bullets and bombs alone could not. Snipes’s life, voter suppression seems much less likely to arrive by bullet. Snipes soon died from those wounds.įortunately, three generations removed from the political reign of terror that claimed Mr. The next day, a white man shot him in his front yard, and Mr. Seventy-five years ago this July, a World War II veteran named Maceo Snipes reportedly became the first Black man to cast a ballot in his rural Georgia county.
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