[SuziQ]

I’d never heard of this. Interesting reading about Hugo Black’s participation as the defense attorney.

[packrat35]

That would be klansman Hugo Black

[re_nortex]

Alabama has undergone a remarkable transformation in just a few short decades. It was a liberal state in the 1920's with its embrace of DemonRATS and its terrorist adjunct, the Ku Klux Klan.

Nowadays Alabama has become one of our most reliable Conservative states with two Republican senators, Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby.

[RobbyS]

Indeed, considering Black’s role in re-writing the First Amendment. His opinion was in effect a paraphrase of the Blaine Amendment. which still disfigures the law of so many states.