Her mother lost 24 years of voting rights. Sheba Williams fought to make sure others wouldn’t.
Each election brings a mix of emotions for Sheba Williams. For nine years, Williams lost the right to vote due to a Jim Crow-era state law that disenfranchised Virginians with a felony conviction. Williams wasn’t the only one: Her parents also faced felony convictions when she was a child. Her mother, Lynette C. Brockington, could
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