Geneva Wilson’s Reviews > Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics > Status Update

“The Civil Rights Act of 1957 contained a provision where the Justice Department could sue those who sought to intimidate or coerce voters, but it was not enforced. In France, everyone pretends to have been in the Resistance and no one was a collaborator…In retrospect, everyone participated in the Civil Rights Movement. But there was nothing widespread about it…”