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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...
- the
matter up calmly, deliberately, and
avowedly with the
purpose of
disfranchising as many of them as we
could under the
fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments...
- 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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Educating the
Disfranchised and
Disinherited is a 1999
biography of
American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his ****ociated
normal school for freedmen...
- and laws.
Blacks and immigrants, however,
resisted Democratic Party disfranchi****t efforts in the state.
Maryland blacks were part of a
biracial Republican...
- mid-1960s
helped overturn the state's Jim Crow laws that
effectively disfranchised African Americans. The
Voting Rights Act of 1965 made
Virginia one of...
- voters, the
Alabama legislature took
several counter-steps
designed to
disfranchise black voters. The
legislature p****ed, and the
voters ratified [as these...
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property might also be confiscated, and in 1866 a
constitutional amendment disfranchising all who had
given aid and
comfort to the
Confederacy was adopted. The...
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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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constitutional amendment incorporating a "grandfather clause" that
effectively disfranchised freedmen as well as the
propertied people of
color manumitted before...