voter suppression

As more Black men gained the right to vote in New York, the state began to change its laws to reduce their power or disenfranchise them completely.

As Confederate monuments were erected, people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas.

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.

The 1868 Election was the first one in which hundreds of thousands of African American men voted. It also began an unfortunate history of voter suppression.

Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the vote has a familiar ring. It evokes an egregious example of election fraud in the 1890s.

The process varied by state, with some making accommodations for the new voting bloc and others creating additional obstacles.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.

Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.

Jeff Sessions tried to jail an activist couple trying to ensure the black residents of Alabama the right to vote.

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.

Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism.

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.

In northern Louisiana, white supremacists slaughtered 150 African Americans, brutally thwarting their hopes for autonomy and self-governance.

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.