| 单词 | negro suffrage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnegro suffrage negro suffrage n. 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.) 30 Apr. 514/5 His vote in favor of free Negro suffrage in the Convention of New York. 1868 F. Douglass Let. 27 Sept. in Sel. Speeches & Writings (1975) vii. 600 I am now devoting myself to a cause..more urgent, because it is life and death to the long-enslaved people of this country; and this is: Negro suffrage. 1920 W. E. B. Du Bois Darkwater 51 The experiment of Negro suffrage has resulted in the uplift of twelve million people at a rate probably unparalleled in history. 1996 Jet (Nexis) 9 Sept. 19 His [sc. Frederick Douglass] stirring address in behalf of ‘Negro suffrage’ and the official endorsement of the convention laid the groundwork for the Fifteenth Amendment. < as lemmas |
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