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King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Bull Connor, the Birmingham, Alabama, police chief, sent “dogs and fire hoses to break up civil rights demonstrations.” See Associated Press, “Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor Dies at 75; Police Head Fought Integration,” New York Times, March 11, 1976. 32. Sonja Starr and M. Marit Rehavi, “Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences,” Journal of Political Economy 122, no. 6 (2014): 1320–54.

33. United States Sentencing Commission, Demographic Differences in Sentencing (Washington, DC: United States Sentencing Commission, 2017), https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf /research-and-publications/research-publications/2017/20171114_Demographics.pdf. 34. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: Routledge, 2016), 94. 35. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, vol. 1, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Editions, 2006), 33.

36. Merrick Garland, “Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivered a Policy Address Regarding Voting Rights,” Department of Justice, Washington, DC, June 11, 2021, https://www .justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-announcing-lawsuit- against-state. 37. Quoted in Lynn Sweet, “Illinois Reacts to Joe Biden-Kamala Harris White House Win,” Chicago Sun-Times, November 7, 2020, https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2020/11/7/21554154 /illinois-reacts-joe-biden-kamala-harris-white-house-win-president-trump. 38. Research by the political scientist Omar Wasow has found that minorities can leverage nonviolent protests “to capture the attention of the media and overcome political asymmetries.” Peaceful protests, Wasow writes, “particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights.”

Omar Wasow, “Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Block Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting,” American Political Science Review 114, no. 3 (2020): 638. 39. Lucy G. Barber, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). 40. Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream,” speech delivered in Washington, DC, August 28, 1963, available from NPR, https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its -entirety. 41. Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. 88-352 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, Pub. L. 89-110. U.S.

Const. Amend. XV stipulates that the right to vote must not be denied on the basis of race, and U.S. Const. Amend. XIX provides that the right to vote must not be denied on the basis of sex. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act protects the right to vote against state and local officials. Section 11 prohibits individuals from intimidating, threatening, or coercing voters. Kevin J. Coleman, Voting Rights Act of 1965: Background and Overview (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2015), 13, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43626/15.

42. Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 375 (1927) (Brandeis, J., concurring). The Whitney case concerned the punishment of Charlotte Anita Whitney for membership in the Communist Party.

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