‘The Tennessee Three’ Give Rise To The Next Civil Rights Movement: Children Should Be Able To Grow Up Free From Gun Violence
Tennessee is the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan and its domestic terrorism campaign to suppress the rights of the newly freed slaves during Reconstruction. It continued through a hundred years of state-sponsored racial apartheid under Jim Crow segregation laws. Gun violence has always been inextricably intertwined with the maintenance of white supremacy. MSNBC’s Lawrence … Read more