In Mississippi, approximately 70,000 individuals are disenfranchised due to felony convictions, with Black individuals accounting for two-thirds of that total

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The president of Mississippi's 1890 constitutional convention declared that delegates had gathered to exclude Black people from voting

The Department of Justice filed an emergency application seeking an injunction requiring California to segregate 20,000 ballots of voters alleged to be noncitizens

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race

The United States Supreme Court declined to review a constitutional challenge to Mississippi's felony disenfranchisement provision

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Powered by People operates voter registration campaigns across college and university campuses throughout Texas

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The United States Department of Justice deployed federal election monitors to Democratic-leaning counties in Georgia

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