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The Setting Up of a Civil Rights Unit in Alabama
By: Daniel Nardini
There can be no doubt that such a unit is necessary. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there have been several hundred cases the Center knows of where individuals have suffered discrimination due to the state immigration law and the extreme prejudice against them. Personally, I do not believe this is enough for what is going on in this state. And we have to remember its less than honorary history. Fifty years ago, the Alabama state government was one of the last bastions of legal discrimination against African Americans. It upheld the Jim Crow laws that justified legal segregation between non-Hispanic whites and African Americans for well over a century. It took the concerted effort of Civil Rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to help desegregate Alabama. Even into the late 1960’s, Alabama leaders still blocked integration of the public schools, communities and the workplace.
On this 50th anniversary of the fight to end segregation, the Alabama state government seems in too many ways to be reliving history. The laws they have passed have discriminated mostly against Latinos, and is causing serious conflicts and disruptions in the state. This is why the establishment of a civil rights unit by the federal government in Alabama is so symbolic. It is saying that even 50 years later, the issue of civil rights and discrimination is still a problem in the state.