throwback: august 22 – throwback thursdays

Republican-American Archives August 1955 Skilled construction workers tackled the job of cutting up the steel railroad bridge that once crossed Bank Street and Naugatuck River. Republican-American Archives 1955 Labor Day Waterbury 1955 saw flood cleanup workers ignore..

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black ex felons will bear the brunt of florida’s new ‘poll tax’

They also argue it violates the 24th Amendment, which prohibits the Jim Crow era practice of imposing poll taxes to prevent or discourage African Americans from voting. . . While drawing up the bill to force felons to pay up before they can vote, Republican state Rep. ..

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