PASADENA - It was a little more than 50 years ago that she, despite being able to vote as a woman, was denied her right because she was black. So, celebrating the 90th anniversary of the women's right to vote
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last month, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) argued before an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that Washington's felon disfranchisement law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because it denies the right to vote to its Black, Latino and Native American citizens on a discriminatory basis. An earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the same court recognized that Washington's felon disfranchisement law injected inequality from the criminal justice system into the political process. As a result, an astonishing 24% of Black men and 15% of Washington's Black population have been denied access to the right to vote. The Ninth Circuit nevertheless held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was not satisfi...
Freedom's Journal denounced slavery and advocated for black people's political rights - particularly the right to vote - and spoke out against lynchings. The paper also provided regional, national, and international news while also entertaining and educating its readers. It broaderled readers' horizons with stories about Haiti and Sierra Leone. It also published birth, death and wedding announcements. To encourage black achievement, it featured biographies of renowned black figures such as revolutionary Haitian leader Touissant L'Ouverture and poet Phyllis Wheatley.
... the first American newspaper written by blacks for blacks. Freedom's Journal denounced slavery an...
-The United States Supreme Court declared in the Guinn v. United States case that "grandfather clauses" in many Southern state constitutions and laws were illegal. The case grew out of the practice, common in the South, of setting up stringent requirements in order to prevent Blacks (former slaves) from voting. But in order to insure that whites could vote, the laws exempted them from the difficult requirements by asserting that anyone (or his grandfather) who could vote prior to 1867 did not have to meet the tough standards. Since virtually no Blacks could vote prior to 1867, "grandfather clauses" had the effect of denying Blacks the right to vote. -One of the nation's foremost Black educators, Mary McLeod Bethune, was appointed director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth A...
For years, I've been telling folks there's no need to worry about black people losing their right to vote. Turns out, I might have been wrong. There was a persistent Internet rumor floating around earlier this decade predicting African-Americans would lose their right to vote if the Voting Rights Act expired in 2007. According to an e- mail, certain provisions of the historic 1965 bill that protected the rights of black voters during the civil rights movement would become null and void if appropriate action wasn't taken by legislators.
-The United States Supreme Court declared in the Guinn v. United States case that "grandfather clauses" in many Southern state constitutions and laws were illegal. The case grew out of the practice, common in the South, of setting up stringent requirements in order to prevent Blacks (former slaves) from voting. But in order to insure that Whites could vote, the laws exempted them from the difficult requirements by asserting that anyone (or his grandfather) who could vote prior to 1867 did not have to meet the tough standards. Since virtually no Blacks could vote prior to 1867, "grandfather clauses" had the effect of denying Blacks the right to vote. -One of the nation's foremost Black educators, Mary McLeod Bethune, was appointed director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth A...
[Charlie Crist] has moderates of both major parties and Independents and [Kendrick Meek] has liberal and some moderate Democratic voters. However, Meek's poll numbers lag at a distant third behind [Marco Rubio] and Crist. If black voters fail to analyze where there is a quid pro quo or return on the investment of their vote or, God forbid, choose not to vote at all, they will have no juice with the newly elected U.S. Senator from Florida. Meek is sitting in the proverbial catbird seat and stands to win even if he loses the Senate race. Obviously, Meek's aides are positioned to negotiate with both Rubio's and Crist's key strategists because if, or when, either wins the Senate seat (if not the long shot Meek) he will want to work with Meek, who is an effective Washington insider. Florida ...
... the predictable manner learned since civil rights marches and demonstrations of the 1960s?. Back the... the polls after grueling struggles to get blacks registered to vote, mainly in the Deep South, was ...
Your editorial, "The franchise for felons" (Opinion, Friday), fails to grasp the powerful point Judge Sonia Sotomayor made in her dissent in Hayden v. Pataki, which is this: A simple reading of the Voting Rights Act makes clear that states may not impose voting qualifications that deny the right to vote on account of race. New York's felony disenfranchisement law, like similar laws throughout the country, does just that. Nationwide, 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of a criminal conviction. More than 80 percent of those currently denied the right to vote under New York's law are black and Latino.
... of states finding creative ways to deny blacks the right to vote. Criminal disenfranchisement law...
HE STRUGGLES AT THE NATIONAL SOUTHERN Christian Leadership Conference are hard to watch for Americans of a certain generation and point of view. The organization is associated with Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic and heroic battle for the right of black Americans to vote, to not be banned from jobs, schools, stores and restaurants because of their race, and to be treated with basic human dignity.
[...] on the "woman question," Clinton's candidacy built on the gradual change that took place over two generations since 1930; she consolidated those changes into a permanent base for women presidential candidates in the future. [...] on the "race question," Clinton's campaign reminds us of the historic precedent of 1869 in which white women competed with black men for the right to vote.
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