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Otis Sanford On Demand: Just Posted

Sanford: GOP gerrymandering of 9th District is Jim Crow racism revisited
 
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My mother, along with a handful of other Black Panola County residents, registered to vote during one of the most precarious times for Black people in the South. It came just six days after the bodies of three Civil Rights workers were discovered in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

 
 

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Otis Sanford

Otis Sanford

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Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.

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