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Adolph Reed will be speaking in Toronto on February 9th, The Fascist Threat and What it Means for Working Class Politics. In 2022 and early 2023, a highly

Rather than persuade younger voters, the candidate would just disenfranchise the vast majority of them.

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. Author: 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 Am...

Georgias voting law: If its not Jim Crow, what is it? Its at least Jim Crow-adjacent. Then, as now, there was a web of disenfranchisement, but not an explicit statute that said: Black people cant vote.  By Jamelle Bouie New York Times April 7, 2021 — 12:02pm ...

April 6, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Black voters waiting to get into the Haywood County Courthouse in Tennessee to register to vote in 1960. Credit...Walter Sanders/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images The laws that disenfranchised Black Americans in the South and established Jim Crow did not actually say they were disenfranchising Black Americans and creating a one-party racist state. I raise this because of a debate among politicians and partisans on whether Georgia’s new election la...

Allison Shertzer, Randall Walsh The legacy of Jim Crow continues to this day. Contemporary historians, such as Chernow (2017), have cast off the traditional depiction of the ‘carpetbagger era’ and have documented the official and unofficial repression of African Americans in the post-Civil War period. Economic research, such as Lisa Cook’s (2014) study of the dearth of patents for African American inventors, has shown how Blacks and whites have been harmed by the aftereffects of Jim Crow....