Read More... A sign directing voters is posted along a fence line at the Platte County Fair Grounds in Tracy, Mo. (Credit: AP) My mother’s body carried the story of a struggle for freedom. The scar on her thigh, a result of the violence that she and African-Americans and allies faced more than half a century ago on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, was inseparable from her identity as a fighter for justice. Like thousands of others, my mother put her body on the line for our constitutional freedoms.