Nicole Hemmer Courtesy Nicole HemmerTheir new map is out, and it makes clear that the Republican-controlled legislature in Alabama has flouted the court order.
That started to change in 1938, when the court began to lay the groundwork for the civil rights jurisprudence of the mid- 20th century.
APAs the court came to embrace civil rights, racial conservatives began to defy it.
Join us on Twitter and FacebookThe courts historically have faced White resistance whenever they have sided with Black civil rights.
That tells us less about the court and more about the political power — and impunity — still wielded by pro-discrimination forces, decades after the Civil Rights Movement.
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