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Pro-Trump Activists Are Using Jim Crow-Era Laws to Disenfranchise Voters
Right-wing vigilantes have been in overdrive attempting to challenge the ballots of 2 million voters by Election Day.
Sixty Years After the Unwinding of Jim Crow, a Historic US Election
Members of the last generation to live under unabashed Jim Crow are among voters in a historic presidential election that has ...
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Sixty years on, longtime Black voters recall Jim Crow, Civil Rights Act
Members of the last generation to live through the end of the Jim Crow laws are among voters in an upcoming presidential ...
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Jim Crow Laws
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... In addition, blacks were systematically denied the right to vote in most of the rural South through ...
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For Many Indigenous People, Voting Is Getting Harder
This and other methods of disenfranchisement continued until the 1965 Voting Rights Act finally swept away the web of Jim Crow laws that barred Indigenous people, African Americans, and immigrants ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN5d
These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote
In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...
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Court says Jim Crow-era felony voting ban in Mississippi can be altered by lawmakers, not judges
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state’s practice of stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies ...
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Lawyers successfully argued that a Jim Crow-era law banning felons from voting is cruel and unusual punishment
Mississippi lawmakers in 1890 drafted a new state constitution designed to strip Black Americans of their voting rights by implementing a poll tax and literacy tests. These Jim Crow-era laws ...
Native American voting power is quietly growing. They might swing the election for Kamala Harris.
In Wisconsin, Biden’s narrow margin was strongly bolstered by Native voters in Menominee and Bayfield counties. Menominee ...
'That's a lie': Georgia's top elections official blasts Harris for attacking state voter law
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger held a press conference on Wednesday to discuss updates about early voting in ...
Editorial: Have courage, take heart and make your vote count
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen an election as fraught with fear and anxiety as the one that culminates today, ...
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Jim Crow Laws
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... In addition, blacks were systematically denied the right to vote in most of the rural South through ...