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FOCUS: Charles M. Blow | Voter Suppression Is Grand Larceny
Charles M. Blow, The New York Times
Blow writes: "We are watching another theft of power."
n 1890, Mississippi became one of the first states in the country to call a constitutional convention for the express purpose of writing white supremacy into the DNA of the state.
At the time, a majority of the registered voters in the state were Black men.
The lone Black delegate to the convention, Isaiah Montgomery, participated in openly suppressing the voting eligibility of most of those Black men, in the hope that this would reduce the terror, intimidation and hostility that white supremacists aimed at Black people.
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