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We can reflect on a momentous decision by Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, and other civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963.

I suspect that King, Bevel, Walker, Shuttlesworth, Abernathy and the other civil rights leaders in Birmingham knew that using high school students involved enormous risk, but those students already lived under segregation and racism and were walking in the shoes of others who had been similarly courageous in the past and this, of course, would be their contribution to civil rights.

Cathy Abernathy, a GOP strategist, disputed that assessment and said she doesn’t think Valadao should be concerned.

“Cutting the size of this government so that it’s not so costly on the working people but still provide needed services is still something that they trust Valadao on,” Abernathy said.

Last year, three other women — Sil Lai Abrams, Sherri Abernathy and Wendy Carolina Franco — filed similar claims in New York against Simmons, alleging he failed to pay about $3 million as part of confidential settlement agreements he reached with them in 2023.