From Annie Jia’s blog:
My law professor, a veteran first amendment scholar in his 60’s with gray hair and a square face, cried in class yesterday as he read aloud a passage from a Wednesday New York Times article about one black voter on election day.
For those like Miss Harris who withstood jailings and beatings and threats to their livelihoods, all because they wanted to vote, the short drive to the polls on Tuesday culminated a lifelong journey from a time that is at once unrecognizable and eerily familiar here in southwest Georgia. As they exited the voting booths, some in wheelchairs, others with canes, these foot soldiers of the civil rights movement could not suppress either their jubilation or their astonishment at having voted for a African-American for president of the United States.
“They didn’t give us our mule and our acre, but things are better,” Miss Harris, 67, said with a gratified smile. “It’s time to reap some of the harvest.”
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