Opinion by Eugene Robinson: In South Carolina, Biden showed new resolve on voting rights
He was wrong on that point. Some of us in the building had indeed seen it before.
When I was growing up in Orangeburg and going to elementary school on the SCSU campus, African Americans across the South were marching, petitioning, clamoring — and, tragically, dying — to dismantle Jim Crow oppression and secure the right to vote, which was systematically and brutally denied to us.The auditorium where Biden spoke is named after three students — Henry Smith, Samuel Hammond Jr.
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