| 单词 | black suffrage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack suffrage black suffrage n. chiefly U.S. Now historical the right of black citizens to vote in political elections.Restriction of voting rights on the grounds of ‘race, color, or previous condition of servitude’ was prohibited in 1870, with the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution. In the following decades, however, the former Confederate states introduced circumventive measures to disenfranchise African Americans. Such discriminatory laws were prohibited in 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was signed into federal law. ΚΠ 1835 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 13 June 666/6 Does not everybody know, that Van Buren is notorious as a Missouri restrictionist and an advocate of black suffrage. 1865 Jrnl. Freedom 30 Sept. 1/3 Our Tennessee friend wants the Rebel Amnesty hurried up, but thinks Black Suffrage can wait a while. The Blacks say, No; it is ‘now or never’. 1997 X. Wang Trial of Democracy Introd. p. xvii With the Reconstruction Act of 1867,..the Republican Congress secured the constitutionality of black suffrage and made protection of black voting rights a national obligation. < as lemmas |
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