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Disfranchi****t, also disenfranchi****t (which has
become more
common since 1982) or
voter disqualification, is the
restriction of
suffrage (the right...
- a black-
disfranchising amendment. The
power of
black men at the
ballot box and
economically helped them
resist these bills and
disfranchising effort....
- The
Disfranchising Act was an Act of
Parliament of the
Parliament of
Ireland debated in 1727 and
enacted in 1728, one of a
series of
Penal Laws, and prohibited...
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constitutional amendment incorporating a "grandfather clause" that
effectively disfranchised freedmen as well as the
propertied people of
color manumitted before...
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being made
invisible in the
political system: "[W]ithin a
decade of
disfranchi****t, the
white supremacy campaign had
erased the
image of the
black middle...
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legislature p****ed a new
constitution disfranchising most
black voters.
Every other Southern state also p****ed
disfranchising constitutions by 1908, thus excluding...
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convention in 1895, an anti-miscegenation law and
changes that
would disfranchise blacks were proposed.
Delegates debated a
proposal for a one-drop rule...
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legislature established universal male
suffrage (though
temporarily disfranchising former Confederate Army officers, who were all Democrats), a public...
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franchise was
exclusively male. From 1728
until 1793,
Catholics were
disfranchised, as well as
being ineligible to sit in the Commons. Most of the po****tion...
- and laws.
Blacks and immigrants, however,
resisted Democratic Party disfranchi****t efforts in the state.
Maryland blacks were part of a
biracial Republican...
