Newkirk: She had this, like, intense stare. ( Soft piano music plays, continuing under the narration.) Newkirk: The first thing most people noticed about my mother was her eyes. Longoria: Can you-can you tell me about her? What-what was she like? Newkirk II: Uh, it’s, uh … it’s-it’s been a difficult couple of months.
Julia Longoria: Vann, I was-I was so sorry to hear about your mom passing. ( Dated music plays, almost backward, as if rewinding, then quiet.) Additional audio from CBSN, New York Public Radio, C-SPAN, Denia Vega, Rare Facts, American Experience PBS, KXAN, Oyez (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License), Democracy Now!, News4JAX, DW News, Streamline Films, and .Ī transcript of this episode is presented below:
Music by h hunt (“ C U Soon,” “ Journeys,” “ Nice Arp”), Ob (“ Wold”), Keyboard (“ Being There,” “ Ojima”), Laundry (“ Films”), and water feature (“ ancient morsel”) catalog by Tasty Morsels. Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at episode was produced by Julia Longoria, Alvin Melathe, and Gabrielle Berbey, with editing by Tracie Hunte and Katherine Wells. Now, in the aftermath of his mother’s death at 56, Newkirk argues that the best way to ensure that democracy lasts is a constitutional amendment.įurther reading: “When America Became a Democracy”īe part of The Experiment. That’s when Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which ended Jim Crow laws preventing Black people from voting in many states.īut the protections enacted in 1965 didn’t last, and today they’re hanging by a thread. That has a lot to do with a law enacted a year after her birth, in 1965. She would grow up as part of the first generation of Americans who lived in a true democracy, according to her son Vann R. Marylin Thurman Newkirk was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in a county where just about 250 Black adults out of more than 13,000 were registered to vote.
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