The racist 1890 law that’s still blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting
by Sam Levine in New York, with photographs by Imani from US news | The Guardian on (#5TST1)
Revealed: Fewer than 200 of those affected have been able to regain their voting rights in the last quarter-century
The Mississippi officials met in the heat of summer with a singular goal in mind: stopping Black people from voting.
We came here to exclude the Negro," said the convention's president. Nothing short of this will answer."
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