"The Color of Law"

Here’s a copy of a fax I’m sending out tomorrow.

To:  Fax # 212-630-5883

To:  Permissions Department

Conde Nast Publications

750 3rd Ave., 3rd Floor

New York, New York 10017

From:  Roy Christman

Democratic Information Center

110 S. First St.

Lehighton, PA 18235

We would like to make 138 photocopies of “The Color of Law” by Louis Menand, pp. 80, 82, and 84-88, in the July 8 &15 issue of The New Yorker.  

Pennsylvania has 111 Republican members of the State House of Representatives and 27 Republican members of the state Senate for a total of 138 Republicans.  Most of those Republican members, along with the Governor, have been engaging in various voter suppression schemes.

We are a group of volunteers, operating as the Community Outreach Association, who run the Carbon County Democratic Information Center.  We are not an official party organ, but we are activists who believe that the right to vote is fundamental.  We also believe that many Republicans in the state legislature have no idea of the struggles of the Sixties.  Mr. Menard’s article, we hope, may enlighten them.  (Incidentally, we are not asking to copy the photograph that accompanies the article.)

We heard on the recording that you usually require a three-month delay.  We hope you will make an exception, since in three months restrictive legislation may already be in place.

Thank you.

[By the way, if you would like to read Mr. Menand’s article, it is at <http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/07/08/130708crat_atlarge_menand>.  I do recommend it, but it will make you angry at the U.S. Supreme Court and the legislative suppression efforts.]