Sentence examples for systematic disenfranchisement from inspiring English sources
My definition of equity is recognition, acceptance, and pursuit of initiatives designed to remedy the historic and systematic disenfranchisement of African Americans and other historically disenfranchised groups.
With the recent gutting of that act by the supreme court, the systematic disenfranchisement of people of color is alive and well today.
In a spate of studies, many of them based on a little-publicized Italian government report commissioned in 1999, researchers have uncovered a vast wartime record detailing a systematic disenfranchisement of Italy's Jews, beginning in the summer of 1938, shortly before the Kristallnacht attacks in November.
This reticence, according to the film, is what pushes King to go to Selma, Alabama, to stage a series of protests that will reveal to the nation, via the news media, what really happens when blacks in the Deep South of the US attempt to register to vote – systematic disenfranchisement, though legally they already have the right.
Just because the black guy won in November doesn't mean election fraud, voter suppression, and systematic disenfranchisement is gone.
These disparities, the result of hundreds of years of systematic disenfranchisement, left African-Americans particularly vulnerable to the mercy of difficult economic winds.
Punk musicians funneled the boredom of suburban living into a potent language of teen frustration, and hip-hop artists from East New York to Compton have used place as a way to discuss disenfranchisement and systematic exclusion.
For Black Americans and their openly racist white counterparts, the flag was indicative of an era of ritualized lynchings, systematic subjugation, and political and social disenfranchisement.
Let's mount an urgent and systematic state-by-state fight against the latest kinds of disenfranchisement and counter every single effort at voter suppression with redoubled commitments to voter education, voter registration, and voter turnout.
Total disenfranchisement".
"That's subtle disenfranchisement".
