The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death
Marian Wright Edelman – President, Children’s Defense Fund Posted: March 11, 2011 06:00 PM Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy… Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation.
