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Claude Cummings Jr.

Vice president, Region 6, CWA

Claude Cummings Jr. is Vice President of Region 6 of the Communications Workers of America, which includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. Mr. Cummings heads the Human Rights Department of the Communication Workers of America.

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Dark history, relived

By Claude Cummings Jr.,

It turns out that the first test for the Sessions/Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) could come in Texas. The state’s Republican Legislature passed the most restrictive voter ID law in the nation in 2011, and it has been ruled by federal courts to illegally discriminate against Hispanic, African American and elderly Texans.