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This is part of Amicus and Slate\u2019s \u201c<\/em>By the People<\/em>\u201d series, which explores how the American people can reclaim the Constitution\u2014and the law\u2014from this monarchical Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more Minneapolis Just Showed the Entire Country How to Take the Constitution Back<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Viola Liuzzo, a nurse and mother of five, was not even 40 years old when she was gunned down on the way home from Selma, Alabama, by the Ku Klux Klan after marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Vernon Dahmer had been active in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi for years when he was murdered by the klan in a firebombing that nearly killed his entire family. Andrew Goodman was barely 20 when he, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner were murdered by the KKK as they volunteered to help with voter-registration efforts in rural Mississippi.<\/p>\n

They are just a few of the most famous martyrs of the movement that gave birth to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. For decades, their families could look back at their sacrifices in sorrow but also in pride at how their lives had forged a true American democracy. This past April, though, something changed. In a 6\u20133 ruling in , the Supreme Court\u2019s conservative supermajority killed the last remaining prong of the VRA, the cause for which these heroes had given their last full measure of devotion. \u201cMany paid the ultimate price for Black people to gain the right to vote,\u201d Dennis Dahmer, one of Vernon Dahmer\u2019s sons, told me. \u201cAnd to see what has systematically been done over the years to that Voting Rights Act, dismantled brick by brick, and finally get this Callais<\/em> ruling, it\u2019s deeply disappointing.\u201d Liuzzo\u2019s son Anthony was more blunt, saying we have lost the \u201cprotections\u201d for our democracy \u201cthat my mother\u2019s blood gave us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of some of the martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement, all of whom were devastated by the court\u2019s Callais<\/em> ruling. Their stories underscore the travesty of what this Supreme Court has stolen from \u201cwe the people\u201d with its yearslong decimation of the VRA. However, they also offer a blueprint for how to restore our democracy and get our country back to a place where the U.S. Constitution can work as it was intended, to offer tangible protections for each and every one of us. The journey will require an impenetrable will and a fearlessness to sacrifice everything for the sake of democracy for all. According to these survivors, though, it will also require something far more basic: going to the ballot box.<\/p>\n

Start with Viola Liuzzo\u2019s story. In her youth, Liuzzo moved around a lot, but no matter where she lived, whether Pennsylvania or Georgia, Tennessee or Michigan, she couldn\u2019t help but notice that Black Americans were treated differently from how she was, as a white woman. She grew up during segregation, witnessed integration, and came of age when klansmen were part of the fabric of daily life, active in everything from police forces to local governments. She watched Black Americans struggle to exercise their right to vote and knew that there was something deeply wrong with the system. Soon, she became one of the first few white people to join the NAACP. On March 24, 1965, Liuzzo was among the hundreds of protesters who marched across Selma\u2019s Edmund Pettus Bridge to demand equal voting rights. \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d was also the last time she would speak to her family and friends, or lend her activism to the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wasn\u2019t one to stand on the sidelines,\u201d Anthony Liuzzo told me. \u201cShe stood there and got involved in the fight.\u201d As activists began their journeys home after the violence inflicted on protesters that day, Viola Liuzzo was individually targeted. A crew of Ku Klux Klan members followed her car as she made the trek back to Michigan, her husband and five children anxiously awaiting her arrival. Eventually, the group pulled up next to her and shot her to death. She was 39 years old.<\/p>\n

Anthony Liuzzo, who was 10 when his mother died and 71 when SCOTUS ended the last protections of the VRA this April, remembers his mother as someone who was always volunteering herself for the cause of human rights, a nurse by trade who would often bring home sex workers and people with addiction issues to help rehab them and get them off the streets. She would emphasize to her children that all humans were created equal, no matter the color of their skin, Anthony Liuzzo told me, recalling a time she had grabbed his arm and said, \u201cWell, nothing comes off. We\u2019re all the same, just the pigment is different in our skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Liuzzo family learned of Viola Liuzzo\u2019s death in the middle of the night, after the local sheriff\u2019s office called them with the news. \u201cIt was madness after she was assassinated. I saw things that no 10-year-old should have to see,\u201d Anthony Liuzzo said. \u201cWe had bullets shot through our windows, crosses burned in our yard, garbage dumped in our yard.\u201d The Liuzzo family was harassed for their mother\u2019s activism even after her death, but the event galvanized activists all over the country, becoming one impetus for Congress to finally pass the landmark 1965 legislation. About four months after Viola Liuzzo\u2019s death, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.<\/p>\n

Sixty-one years later, on April 29, 2026, Anthony Liuzzo and Americans across the country witnessed six individuals, in one fell swoop, issue a binding opinion in , dismantling the work that thousands of activists had spilled blood, sweat, and tears over. The court\u2019s far-right majority declared that racism was no longer a problem and that, therefore, Section\u00a02 of the act, which forced states to create majority-minority districts so Black and brown voters had a fair chance to elect their ideal candidates to Congress, was unnecessary. This was the last standing major plank of the VRA after the court\u2019s elimination of Section\u00a05 in 2013\u2019s Shelby County v. Holder<\/em>. Like Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 majority opinion in Shelby<\/em>, Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s opinion in Callais<\/em> was premised on the false narrative that racism is no longer a significant problem in America. \u201cThe Voting Rights Act led to \u2018great strides\u2019 in the ensuing decades: \u2018voting tests were abolished, disparities in voter registration and turnout due to race was erased, and African Americans attained political office in record numbers,\u2019 \u201d Alito wrote, justifying the nail in the coffin for the VRA.<\/p>\n

This is a willfully ignorant reading of the current reality of the country\u2019s electoral politics, but Anthony Liuzzo was unsurprised by it. \u201cNobody should be surprised that the Supreme Court did this,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was initiated a long time ago to try to get rid of the Voting Rights Act, and they\u2019ve accomplished it\u2014temporarily.\u201d If his mother were still alive today, he says, she would be out on the streets, encouraging every eligible American to exercise their right to vote, in spite of Callais<\/em>. This is how, he believes, this setback can be overcome. \u201cThey need to get off their behinds and get in the voting booth and vote. It\u2019s the only way we\u2019re going to turn this around now,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be harder because we don\u2019t have the guidelines or protections that the Voting Rights Act had given us, or that my mother\u2019s blood gave us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dennis Dahmer, who is 73, similarly understands the stakes of what the court has done by rolling back key protections the VRA established. His father, Vernon Dahmer, was \u201ca card-toting member of the NAACP,\u201d he said. \u201cAs a result of that, there were a lot of whites who didn\u2019t like that\u2014at all.\u201d Living in Mississippi, Vernon Dahmer watched his Black neighbors struggle to vote, impeded by poll taxes designed to target them. He decided to put his money where his mouth was and released a radio ad announcing that he would pay the poll tax for any Black American who wanted to register to vote but didn\u2019t have the means to do so.<\/p>\n

The move angered local KKK members, who began plotting against Dahmer. One night around 2 a.m., two cars filled with armed KKK members rolled up to the Dahmers\u2019 home. \u201cThey\u2019re shooting in the house, shooting the windows out, throwing gallons of gas through the windows and torches behind it,\u201d Dennis Dahmer said. \u201cMy dad is running through the house, from different doors and windows, shooting back at these carloads of klansmen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more We Faced Down Trump\u2019s Secret Police in Minneapolis. Here\u2019s How We Did It.<\/a><\/p>\n

Though Vernon Dahmer managed to survive the night, he died the next day from smoke inhalation that caused fatal lung damage. He was survived by his wife and seven children. His death energized Mississippi residents and prompted Johnson to wire his condolences to the family.<\/p>\n

The Callais<\/em> opinion was the final act of the Roberts court\u2019s decadeslong effort to roll back critical protections in the VRA that gave minority voters a discernible voice in Congress through representatives they hand-selected. In Shelby County<\/em>, the justices had eliminated the guidance that jurisdictions with a history of voter suppression get Justice Department approval for new district maps and other electoral changes. Then, in 2021, through Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee<\/em>, the court found that state laws that restricted ballots in a way that disproportionately affected minority voters were perfectly lawful.<\/p>\n

Finally, with Callais<\/em>, the court\u2019s conservative majority eviscerated Section\u00a02, considered the heart of the act, which had forced states to create majority-minority districts in their congressional maps. \u201cAnd in that way it greenlights redistricting plans that will disable minority communities\u2014in Louisiana and across the Nation\u2014from electing, as many majority communities can, \u2018representatives of their choice,\u2019 \u201d Justice Elena Kagan argued in her dissent.<\/p>\n

Dennis Dahmer believes that his father would be \u201chighly pissed off at Americans who are not voting, because that is the problem.\u201d He said, \u201cWe are in the situation we are today in America because of voter apathy.\u201d Although state legislatures and the Trump administration actively push for measures that further suppress voter turnout, from race-based redistricting to the SAVE Act, the biggest tool we have left to fight back is our vote, he says. The failure to use that power is what is costing us our constitutional protections. \u201cThat is how they win elections, by keeping people away from the polls who will not vote for their agenda,\u201d Dahmer said.<\/p>\n

Some 60 years ago, Andrew Goodman understood how a complicit government could actively suppress Black voters. \u201cThe Senators could not persist in this polite debate over the future dignity of a human race if the white Northerners were not so shockingly apathetic,\u201d he wrote in a school paper, criticizing the North\u2019s total accommodation of the segregationist South of the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Within days of penning those words, Goodman received an invitation to join a voter-registration project in Mississippi by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a powerful civil rights group built up by young people pushing for racial equality. \u201cHe wanted to do something about it rather than just talk about it,\u201d David Goodman, his younger brother, told me. Soon enough, Andrew Goodman was on his way to Mississippi to help register Black Americans to vote. His efforts were tragically cut short. On June 21, 1964, his first day in Mississippi, alongside Chaney and Schwerner, Goodman was murdered by the KKK in a brutal ambush that resulted in a 44-day-long search for their bodies.<\/p>\n

David Goodman believes that the U.S. is currently facing a struggle similar to the one his brother fought six decades ago, with the people in power attempting to take away Americans\u2019 constitutional rights in order to expand their control. \u201cThey\u2019re going to chip away at it in many, many, many different ways,\u201d he said. \u201cOne way is to say that the Voting Rights Act is not valid and, furthermore, talk about methods and ways to gerrymander states so that Black people are outvoted by white people.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the simplest and most immediate steps Americans can take regain control of their rights is to simply vote and force accountability on politicians. \u201cOtherwise, you sit there and moan and groan and don\u2019t vote. They\u2019re going to do what they want,\u201d David Goodman said.<\/p>\n

American democracy has entered one of its darkest periods, but it\u2019s one we have faced before. The Civil War tore the country apart but eventually led to the abolishment of slavery. The Jim Crow Era ushered in a new kind of slavery but eventually galvanized Congress to establish some of its most impactful legislation, in the VRA and the Civil Rights Act. \u201cYou go forward a little bit in a positive way, then get pushed backwards again, but this is the story of America,\u201d concluded David Goodman.<\/p>\n

The unfortunate reality is that nearly every period of injustice the U.S. has experienced has come at the expense of human lives. The Liuzzo, Dahmer, and Goodman families know this all too well. The only way to sufficiently honor these legacies, alongside thousands of others who similarly participated in the civil rights era, is to pick up where they left off and continue their fight for equal rights and democracy for all.<\/span><\/p>\n

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