How old are you?

I'm 19. I turned 19 in October. I just turned 19.

This is Oslyn Johnson.

How did your parents react when you told them that you were writing legislation?

Um, shock, honestly, I think for like maybe the first several months or probably a year, they had no idea what

I was doing.

Oslyn Johnson is in college now, but she started writing this law, a law that was just

signed by the president, four years ago, when she was still in high school.

It started as an assignment for her history class.

So it was about, I think, several months before my family realized that I'm not working on a school project,

like I'm lobbying Congress.

The Law Oslin co-road. It's called the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act.

It makes it possible for families and researchers to access investigative records for more than 100 unsolved, racially motivated crimes.

Crimes committed years before Oslin was born, far from where she lives.

It seems crazy to think about now, but this whole process felt really organic from the beginning.

In our curriculum, we were talking about Silver Rights era.

We started with the case of the 16th Street Church Baptist bombing.

18 days after the march on Washington, Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church just before a Sunday morning service.

Fifteen people were injured.

Four children were killed.

The four little girls that got killed, I remember it just struck you as like, this is devastating.

This is a case I never heard about until I'm sitting in an AP government class in high school.

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