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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Disfranchisement."”.
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Suffrage for White Men Only: The Disfranchisement of Free Men of Color in Antebellum North Carolina
This thesis explores the disfranchisement of free men of color in 1835 North Carolina through the lens of antebellum citizenship and within the context of the racial turmoil of the 1830s. Citizenship and the evolution of southern racial ideology converged in the 1835 North Carolina Constitutional …
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Fair Treatment? African-American Presence at International Expositions in the South, 1884 - 1902
… second-class citizens, and the rise of Jim Crow, disfranchisement, and racial violence during this time period. This study examines the details of African-American presence and representation at each of these fairs and how the changing state of race relations in the South at the turn of the …
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Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives
… race theory, critical race praxis, educational disfranchisement, writing studies.</p>
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"Most Great Reconstruction": The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965
… during the long decades of segregation and disfranchisement. In contrast to nearly every other religious organization in early-twentieth century South Carolina, the Baha'is developed an explicit policy of promoting racial integration at the local level. Facing ostracism, slander, and …
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Law, Labor, and Land in the Postbellum Cotton South: The Peonage Cases in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1865--1940
… failed to understand the connection between disfranchisement and peonage. However, the efforts of the federal government and African Americans did succeed in rescuing some blacks from the immediate grips of landowners. Initiated by landowners, peonage was ended by outside social and economic …
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
… The Marrow of Tradition critiques the black disfranchisement, segregation, and racial violence defended by Page, Dixon, Calhoun, Smith, and Bruce. Chapter Six interprets Chesnutt's critique of sectional conflict and the ""New South Creed"" in his 1905 novel The Colonel's Dream along with …
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The Impact Of Voter Suppression Laws On African American Participation In Florida And North Carolina From 1988 To 2012
<p>A rich body of research presents conflicting accounts describing how contemporary voter suppression laws impact political participation. This study process traces the political development of North Carolina and Florida from 1988 to 2012 to assess four competing explanations of this process. This …
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Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
The movement for the legal prohibition of alcohol, or simply "prohibition," has attracted scholarly attention for its wide-ranging impact on culture and politics. Prohibitionist "drys" overcame anti-prohibitionists "wets" to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment …