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?

Shock?

Honestly, I think for like maybe the first several months or probably a year they had no

idea what I was doing because...

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 from my family realized that I'm not working

on a school project like I'm law-fying Congress.

The law, Oslyn Corrid, 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

a hundred unsolved, racially motivated crimes.

Crimes committed years before Oslyn 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, um, Civil 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

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