Georgia’s election law sparks ‘Jim Crow’ rhetoric, as well as pushback
In recent weeks, Democrats have repeatedly warned that Republican-backed election bills like the one enacted in Georgia amount to a resurgence of Jim Crow, the legal structures in the pre-1960s South that kept Blacks segregated and politically powerless.
The system included both segregationist laws and social norms that relegated Blacks to second-class status. Significant elements of the system were laws that, while nominally written to be racially neutral, had the widespread effect of disenfranchising Blacks from voting. The methods included poll taxes, complicated literacy tests and "grandfather clauses." Many of...