Jon Guze: Lessons from NAACP – HR1/For the People Act revives this shameful Democrat policy from 1950s
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Given their shameful history of using donor disclosure to suppress the civil rights movement in the 1950s, the Democrats’ recent decision to revive the practice in H.R. 1 and use it to suppress contemporary dissenters is a bit surprising.
Some of us haven’t forgotten. The free and unfettered flow of competing ideas is essential to the operation of our republican system of government. After decades of hard work, in the mid-1950s the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) finally began to win some significant victories in its long struggle to overturn the system of legally enforced racial discrimination known as Jim Crow. In response, the southern political establishment deployed a new and potent weapon: donor disclosure.More Related News
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