Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticHere’s a startling statistic for you. In Mississippi, at the height of the Reconstruction era (which lasted until 1877), African-American voter registration stood at 67 percent.
A century later, after America had defeated the Nazis and was held up as a beacon of freedom, African-American voter registration in Mississippi stood at just three percent.How could that have happened?
Many factors, but a key one was domestic racial terrorism. In “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a powerfully timely and absorbing documentary about voter suppression and the ongoing battle against it, the author and professor Carol Anderson tells the story of Maceo Snipes, who fought the fascists during World War II and felt like.
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