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ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 14. -- By a vote of 159 to 16 the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly to-day passed the bill aimed to disfranchise the Negroes. The measure had already been passed by ...
We have reached the stage where Sunak’s MPs seek empathy for their inability to comply with their own policies, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde ...
color or previous condition of servitude,” and Congress never seriously attempted to apply it when Southern states began to disfranchise blacks—largely because such disfranchisement was ...
In the same year the Maryland General Assembly adopted the new flag, it also tried to amend the state constitution to disfranchise Black men. (Put to a public referendum, the measure narrowly ...
However, a number of prominent Republicans complained that this narrow language would allow states intentionally to disfranchise most African-Americans by adopting qualifications that, although ...
decried the impeachment proceedings as “political theater” that will “inflict lasting damage on the Texas House”, adding to his earlier claims that it was an effort to disfranchise the ...
Ironically, Dudley, who "never worshipped at the shrine of color," helped launch the career of the man who at the century's end would disfranchise him on account of color. African American votes ...
Atlanta’s Olympic movement disguised as progress was seen by many black Atlantans as a movement to further criminalize, demonize, disfranchise, and displace them at record levels. The Atlanta ...
Eventually, this will simply disfranchise tens of thousands of people who have gone through life seeing cricket as an epic ...
that Kikuyus had their functioning religious ceremonies and worshipped the Supreme God before the Church collaborated with colonialists to disfranchise the community spiritually. “I do not deny ...
The Bela Bill is likely to pass constitutional muster, according to Parliament's legal service department. The Basic ...