The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...
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 ...
we simply have Jim Crow laws of a new color. The states must also provide an appeals process for immediate resolution when documents are deemed unacceptable. Preventing citizens from voting is ...
Laws restricting where Black people could stand in public. Even after the 19th Amendment finally gave women the right to vote in 1920, Jim Crow laws prevented many Black women from doing so.
The Trump administration has dismissed public pleas for mercy for transgender youth and instead launched a full-scale attack ...
to the struggle against Jim Crow laws, America’s successful efforts to expand and defend the right to vote are some of our nation’s greatest triumphs. Every citizen’s vote is sacred.
Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...
just after the first Jim Crow laws went into effect in 1865 ... Ho, who appeared to acknowledge that Mississippi voters never had the chance to vote for or against the eight crimes, when Jones made ...
A voter deposits his ballot in a dropbox in Mission, Kan., on Oct. 20, 2020. (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press) ...
The class action suit was brought in 2018 by six Mississippi men - including white and Black plaintiffs - who lost the right to vote even ... what were called Jim Crow laws.