Bogalusa was a hotbed of KKK intimidation during the civil rights era. Now that history could help ensure a safe election in 2020.
.” Klan members attacked civil rights activists and brandished guns at civil rights marches. They defamed and boycotted white moderates who supported desegregation. And they threatened any governmental officials—from the governor to the mayor—who dared to try to get in their way.
Being the target of violence and intimidation by Southern racists was nothing new for members of local civil rights organizations like the Bogalusa Voters League, and they continued marching to obtain their right to vote and organizing to protect themselves against Klan violence. But while the Voters League was undeterred, the same cannot be said of city officials.
The predictable result was an outbreak of Klan terrorist violence directed at voting rights marchers and advocates. In response, the Voters League and the federal Department of Justice filed lawsuits against the Klan and the city of Bogalusa for violating, among other things, federal civil rights laws. The lawsuits argued that not only was it illegal for the Klan to intimidate voters but that it was also illegal for the city to fail to take reasonable actions to protect those voters.
Fast forward to 2020, when Americans are subject to a force that threatens their physical well-being if they enter the public sphere in order to vote. That force, COVID-19, willdisenfranchise Black and brown communities who have to contend with both the highest mortality rates and an uneven, discriminatory distribution of voting infrastructure and resources.
We’re arguing in court that a failure to take reasonable precautions to protect voters from COVID violates Section 11 of the Voting Rights Act, which makes voter intimidation illegal regardless of whether anyone
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