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Disfranchise meaning
To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise.
Synonyms of Disfranchise
Example sentences (5)
Additionally, if they could also disfranchise former Confederates, the ex-slave vote could become the region’s majority.
Beginning in the 1940s, when the courts started taking the first steps to recognize the voting rights of black voters, the Alabama legislature took several counter -steps designed to disfranchise black voters.
He believed that he would not succeed in passing legislation to disfranchise illiterate whites who already had the vote.
In the border states and North, blacks continued to exercise the vote; the well-established Maryland African-American community defeated attempts there to disfranchise them.
They enforced this by a combination of violence, late 19th-century laws imposing segregation and a concerted effort to disfranchise African Americans.