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How Jim Crow-Era Laws Suppressed the African American Vote for Generations
In the wake of the passage of the 15th Amendment and Reconstruction, several southern states enacted laws that restricted Black Americans access to voting.
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Black men voting in 1868./Credit: Corbis/Getty Images
In the wake of the passage of the 15th Amendment and Reconstruction, several southern states enacted laws that restricted Black Americans access to voting.
Following the ratification in 1870 of the 15
th Amendment, which barred states from depriving citizens the right to vote based on race, southern states began enacting measures such as poll taxes, literacy tests, all-white primaries, felony disenfranchisement laws, grandfather clauses, fraud and intimidation to keep African Americans from the polls.
More than 130 years after Mississippi imposed a poll tax and literacy test to keep Blacks from voting, President Biden others warn that Jim Crow-style disenfranchisement is resurfacing in efforts by Georgia, Texas and other states to restrict voting.
Bill to amend stateâs three-strikes rules passes House By Anthony Warren | February 10, 2021 at 4:22 PM CST - Updated February 11 at 8:42 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A bill that would significantly amend the stateâs habitual offender laws has made it through the state House of Representatives.
On Thursday, the House approved H.B. 796, which amends the stateâs habitual offender laws, commonly referred to as the âthree strikes laws.â
The bill will now go to the Senate, where it will be referred to a committee for further review.
A similar bill introduced by District 5 Sen. Daniel Sparks, but died in the Judiciary B Committee.
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A seminal moment in Georgia’s history unfolded a few days ago.
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were elected as the first Jewish and the first African-American senators to represent that southern state in the U.S. Senate.
(It could be argued that John S. Cohen, a journalist born in Augusta, was technically the first Jewish senator from Georgia. A Jew on his father’s side, he adopted his mother’s Episcopalian faith and considered himself a Christian. From April of 1932 to January of 1933, he served in the U.S. Senate, filling a vacancy caused by the death of his predecessor).