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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 Amendment, which barred states from depriving citizens the right to vote based on race, southern sta...

Georgia's voting law: If it's not Jim Crow, what is it? It's at least Jim Crow-adjacent. Then, as now, there was a web of disenfranchisement, but not an explicit statute that said: 'Black people can't vote.'  By Jamelle Bouie New York Times April 7, 2021 — 12:02pm Text size Copy shortlink: The laws that disenfr...

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 law — rushed through last month by the state’s Republican legislature and signed by Gov. Bri...