Dr. Ellen Helms, granddaughter of NC’s famously reactionary U.S. Senator, the late Jesse Helms
If you’re an American of a certain age, you undoubtedly remember Jesse Helms. Helms was a North Carolina U.S. Senator from 1973 to 2003 – a period in which he was widely recognized as America’s best known and most outspoken arch-conservative politician. On a long and sobering list of issues – race, reproductive freedom, equality for women and LGBTQ people, and dozens of others – Helms was consistently reactionary, outspoken, provocative, and uncompromising.
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