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During the 1870s, more than a half a million Black men voted for the first time in their lives. But this wave of progressive change did not last long.
Election board proposes shutting down seven of the nine polling locations in an overwhelmingly black rural county not long after Democrats nominated Stacey Abrams, an African American woman, as their gubernatorial candidate.
Thousands of pages of internal records are likely to bolster critics of the short-lived Trump administration commission.
Mr. Sellars, 44, is one of a dozen people in Alamance County in North Carolina who are being prosecuted for voting in the 2016 presidential election while on probation or parole for a felony.
One hundred and fifty years after Black activists like Walker fought so ferociously for unrestricted voting rights, similar issues remain a driving force in civil rights struggles today.
More people are being purged now than at any time in the past decade. Much of this increase coincided with a landmark decision handed down by the Supreme Court in 2013. Shelby County v. Holder struck at the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
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