Jim Crow and the Georgia Voting Law

Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon (D-Atlanta) is placed in handcuffs by Georgia State Troopers after being asked to stop knocking on a door that led to Gov. Brian Kemp's office while Kemp was signing a voting restriction bill at the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta on March 25, 2021. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS

Commentary

At his news conference last Thursday, President Biden said of Georgia’s new voting law, “It makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.”