Sentence examples for been disenfranchised in from inspiring English sources

Twenty years later, when "Up from Slavery" was published, black men had virtually been disenfranchised in the South.

So many people have been disenfranchised in this process and we want our voices to be heard.

Mr. Wynn said the contested presidential election, and charges that minority voters had been disenfranchised in Florida, made him rethink his previous support for such a ban.

The group's preferred demographic is Muslim men between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five who have been disenfranchised in some way — lost a job or dropped out of school.

He claims that in the 2000 Presidential recount, whites were twice as likely as blacks to have been disenfranchised in Florida, citing a lone dissent written by a conservative member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's majority report.

The board's decision was a disappointment to Democrats and their allies, who since Nov. 7 have filed three lawsuits asserting that 28th District voters had been disenfranchised in various ways.

It might be people who were disenfranchised in school.

A 1999 federal court decree followed complaints by Hispanic voters that they were disenfranchised, in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

Thousands of black electors in Florida were disenfranchised in last November's election by an electoral system tainted by "injustice, ineptitude and inefficiency" a leaked report by the US civil rights commission says.

Studies suggest that as many as 4 million to 6 million voters were disenfranchised in 2000, either because registration problems prevented qualified voters from casting ballots or because of errors caused by faulty, outdated technology.

"People don't pay a whole lot of attention to cemeteries if the people in them were disenfranchised in life, whether it be former slaves or the people considered on the margins of society," Mr. Herr said.