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The Importance of Localized Apartheid Laws to Prosecute Black Disenfranchisement
Gilbert horton spends about a month in jail in washington d.c but where do the privileges and immunities clause come in one of the arguments that people make for why he was arrested. People are saying we're just enforcing local law like we didn't do anything wrong so what's the big deal? But new york is saying no his rights as a citizen are being violated by this arrest. You can't just arrest a citizen of the state of new york and some other jurisdiction for doing nothing other than being a black man walking down the street. That's a really great example of a thread of argument that kind of continues throughout the period that i'm writing about