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Disfranchising meaning
present participle and gerund of disfranchise
Example sentences (6)
Rigging elections & disfranchising citizens, amending constitution to stay in power, appointing senators are torsional issues.
After disfranchising most African Americans and many poor whites in the 1901 constitution, the Alabama legislature passed more Jim Crow laws at the beginning of the 20th century to impose segregation in everyday life.
Disfranchising voter registration requirements continued to keep most African Americans and many poor whites, both men and women, off the voter rolls.
Following the end of Reconstruction in 1877, Democrats devised means of disfranchising blacks, initially by physical intimidation and voter fraud, later by constitutional amendments and laws.
In 1889 the General Assembly passed four laws described as electoral reform, with the cumulative effect of essentially disfranchising most African Americans in rural areas and small towns, as well as many poor Whites.
White elite-dominated state legislatures passed disfranchising constitutions from 1890 to 1908 that effectively barred most blacks and many poor whites from voting.